Scanning Film with a Flatbed Scanner | Epson Perfection V750 Pro
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I follow up on the previous wet scanning video ( • Wet Scanning With The ... ) with a tutorial illustrating my workflow using stock film holders supplied with the Epson Perfection V750 Pro flatbed scanner. For the purpose of this tutorial, we'll scan 35mm colour negatives.
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Intro: 00:00
Previous wet scanning video: 00:33
Quick & Easy method (film holders): 01:00
Holder height adjustment: 02:35
Flatbed vs. Drum: 02:50
Silverfast vs. Epson Scan 2: 03:48
Cleanliness is next: 04:09
Epson Scan 2 workflow: 04:19
Post production: 09:17
Final tip: 09:34
Outro: 10:00
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Do you shoot film? Do you scan your own or farm it out?
I’ve owned the 750 for years, never disappoints. Go back and forth using the Silverfast and Epson software, find the a epson is sometimes more user friendly.
Thanks for your tutorial ,
Same here. 👍
Yes please more of this sort of thing Ray. Good to see you looking so well. It is interesting to note that it is ONLY when I scan images on my (very same) Epson that I use the TIFF format. People bang on about it but what use is it to me when I use Photoshop as my default format and then always export to JPEGs. I can only think of once, in best part of 30 years of doing digital photography stuff, has it ever been insisted on by a client that I send them TIFF files. Made me laugh as I only had JPEG originals at that time so converted them to TIFFs and sent them these... unsurprisingly they were well chuffed that they had got their TIFFs and it also meant I had a client not in a tiff as well!
Nice vid indeed and regards to 'er in doors, as Del Boy might have said...
No use getting into a tiff about TIFFs. It's no one's lossy. 😀
@@RaymondParkerPhoto btw... great to see you getting the recognition you deserve within the youtubing fraternity... go Matt Erwin
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Superb presentation 👏
Thank you! Cheers!
@@RaymondParkerPhoto your welcome
Great - thank you!
How about a video showing how to clean the underside of the flatbed scanner glass?
Good idea; it needs another cleaning.
I never knew that you can get something that affordable with such good results. Recently, my mom decided to throw all the pictures we had back from film days (including the negatives) and gave them to a photo shop that did a very shoddy scanning job. In any case, it's really good to know that this exists, thank you! I've been contemplating going back to film which I haven't used since 2006. This scanner gives me more incentive to do so. However, the V750 Pro is almost double the price of the V850 Pro in my country! Is it that the 750 is better?
Hi Yamen. I can't say why the V750 would be more expensive than the V850 in your country, since the 850 has replaced the 750. In other words, the 750 is discontinued, so any you're seeing for sale are old stock. The only advantage to the 750 -- were it available -- is that it came with the fluid mounting kit, as I mention in the video, but that wouldn't be worth twice the price of the V850 -- it costs around $80CA separately.
@@RaymondParkerPhoto thank you, I suspected as much. Electronic shops here have a nasty habit of increasing the price of obsolete items which makes no sense whatsoever.
Very interesting - I was wondering about the quality of results you get from these scanners and they look very good indeed. I like the sort of contact sheet you can get. I used to shoot a lot of film and I have a Minolta Scan Multi Pro I got off ebay about 15 years ago to scan the negs - the reason I got it was that it can handle up to 6x9cm. I still have got it but it is about 20 years old now and I have used it recently but it is very temperamental - it has a firewire connection and I have to use an old laptop with a special adaptor to make it work. Its lamp is also a bit hit and miss - it is a tiny fluorescent tube and sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t - takes ages to warm up. However when I have coaxed it back into life, the scanner still gives good results - e.g. 50MP scans of 6x6. I had a bit of trouble with film flatness and uneven focus so I eventually modified one of the glass holders to keep the film flat. I agree with your comment about manually fixing dust and scratches - I find this sort of therapeutic in a way. I use photoshop for this rather than LR - PS seems to work much better than LR and if you have a lot of spots it really slows LR down.
I still shoot film on occasion and recently I dug out an old Nikon F3 and put some HP5 in it - I leave this in the car so I can grab it and take a picture when I want. Its sort of like the old days of casual photographers when a roll of film could sit in a camera for months!
Thanks for the comment, Steve. I bought this scanner to scan my medium format work (mostly 6x6, but up to 6x9) and a few surviving 4x5 and 8x10 images, the latter shot with transparency. Yes, the quality is excellent.
My medium format work is then printed up to 15x15" and looks very good indeed. No complaints from buyers; quite the contrary.
99% of the time I scan the larger format stuff using the wet scanning option (th-cam.com/video/gS3fUg3wMXM/w-d-xo.html).
I still have a Canon FS 4000 (circa 2003) that makes very good scans to 35mm but drivers are now a problem.
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@@RaymondParkerPhoto good to know, but one more question, if you want to scan 4x5" and 5x7", do you HAVE to use the wet scanning method?, and what scanners can take it?, one more thing, with wet scanning, can the negatives be recovered, as NOT many people show what happens post scan to these negatives.
Sorry for late reply -- YT doesn't alert for follow-ups. The scanner c/w holder for 4x5. Negs are not affected by Cami fluid. They dry instantly when removed from glass (use in well-ventilated space).
I have and use the Epson V750 to sccan a variety photos and ducuments.Unfortunety am now missing the foam rubber Pad tha alows me to scan could someone direct me to where can find a replacemenr this item
Are you referring to the mat used for scanning documents/prints? If so, a quick Google search turned up a "housing, mat for Epson Perfection V750 Pro" from Compass Micro in Vancouver, WA.
Why is Epson scan 2 so hard to find???
Good question. Epson aren't (understatement alert) great at updating their peripheral apps and drivers but it depends on your operating system. From what I can gather, if your operating system isn't supported ( I can only comment on Mac) then you can download and install Epson's ICA Scanner Driver for Image Capture and use Apple's Image Capture software. Alternatively--and this is what I'm about to do since Scan 2 has become unstable--is to buy VueScan.
I was thinking it would be a great winter project to scan old negatives but this method may be more time consuming than I would have patience for. Can the interface separate the thumbnails into their own files automatically? I used an Imacon scanner years ago when I took photography at my local college and scanned pre-WWII glass negatives that my dad had and put a book together for him. At the time, that scanner was quite the novelty. Terrific info and video, as always, Ray!
Hi, Christian. If I'm understanding the question, yes, you can choose as many thumbnails as you like and bulk scan.
@@RaymondParkerPhoto Yes, was my question and you answered it except - do you get one gigantic file that you have to chop and rename all of the individual files?
@@MainlightDrone Perhaps I can help here... no you do not get one large file.
In the settings ensure that you choose the options to scan multiple scans. Once you have everything as you like (for the individual images that is) and have used the marquee tool to individually pick out the photos you want to scan, you hit the scan function button. The scanner will go away and scan all the different photos you have marquee-ed out and save them to wherever you have pointed the Epson software to save them to.
This is the same procedure as when you scan hardcopy prints or the like. You can marquee multiple areas of a single photo or multiple photos and scan them all at the same time.
@@selianboy8508 Thanks for the answer. It's what I suspected, or hoped for anyway. So each thumbnail becomes a large file with its own file number.
@@MainlightDrone yup...
Can't remember if I told you I used to operate a drum scanner.
Excellent! How much was that worth?
Can't remember what it cost, it wasn't cheap though! I think it was a Hell.
i would love to be your kid
Hmmm .. Wheres is the part where you actually scanned the film as it states in the title
In the video.