![]() Using a 'residue free' (we recommend the 'green' 3M masking tape), tape film (toward ANR surface) ensuring that film is taut during tacking.Blow off surface with a source of clean compressed air (optional).Place ANR surface upwards on a dust free surface.Thoroughly clean ANR glass surface with alcohol or butane and a cotton ball or other dust free swab material.Remove the hinged 'frame trap' on the Epson scanning frame, whether it's the 35mm, medium format or 4x5 models.We wholeheart-edly encourage you to try your own methods - but will offer what we have found to be the most expedient and highest quality method yielding the best results. We will concentrate on this latter method as it seems the most expedient. There are many ways to make use of our ANR Glass - it can be used directly to sandwich the film on the scanning platen or in one of the Epson frames. but we also found that part of the benefit of the glass was the damping of vibrations from the stepper motors in the Epson scanners, which this particular glass formulation offers. Film curvature and shallow depth of field is indeed a lot of the problem. This is due to the fact that a better scan can be had from throwing a little mass at the vibration problem with the Epson scanners. From our own research into the problem of getting optimal results with the Epson scanners, we found the problem alleviated by a combination of a 'field flattening' ANR glass blank of greater thickness and density than was otherwise commercially available. The most effective of these has been the simple addition of an ANR glass - some have gotten improvements with inexpen-sive picture framing glass, expensive but questionable height adjustement stages and all manner of other solutions. And many popular solutions have been offered. Much has been written about these scanners online. The Epson scanners have acquired popularity in recent years as being an inexpensive and good quality solution to consum-er scanning needs. GLASS SHOULD BE CLEANED THOROUGHLY IN SOAP AND WATER BEFORE USE. PLEASE NOTE: GLASS MAY HAVE RESIDUAL TRACES OF POLISHING COMPOUND AND/OR RESIDUE CREATED IN THE PACKAGE (DUE TO VIBRATION DURING SHIPPING) LEFT ON THE SURFACE. I used an image to text converter, please excuse any typosĮpson V600 V700 V800 Anti Newton Ring Glass Inserts Instructions for Use I only used them directly over the film within the stock Epson v600 filmholder.Įspon V600 V700 V7800 Anti Newton Ring Glass Inserts Instructions for Use from scantech I haven't tried any of the other methods that they suggested. There was some debris on the glass itself. I did clean my ANR inserts before using them. These tips were packaged with my ANR glass inserts from scantech. Overall the ANR insert is a little bit sharper and has a little bit more detail. I would make the same arugment from the EPSON Scan. Overall I would say the image is slightly sharper with the ANR insert. Some of the lettering (427 on the side of the car) and the license plate is a bit sharper. The ANR insert again helped the shadow detail in the grill of the car. Also the entire image looks sharper than the image without the ANR insert. The shadow and highlight detail is better with the ANR insert. Overall I would say the bottom image with ANR insert is better. The ANR insert seems to have better shadow detail and the edges of the leaves are a little bit more defined. These are cropped at 100%.Īgain I cannot tell that much of a difference. The original image is 3335x2080 and it was scanned at 2400dpi. First Photo - Downtown Chicago EPSON Scan Looking at the overall photo is hard in this context It makes more sense to dissect one patch to see the perceived improvements. I cropped the three photos in regions that I thought would be good patches to determine if the ANR insert is useful or not. I sampled three photos from my collection to rescan with and without the ANR insert. All of the shots were shot on porta 400 shot at box speed of ISO 400. I think the car one may have been shot on my Carl Zeiss VARIO-SONNAR T* (C/Y) 35-70mm I do not remember. These photos were shot on a Contax RTS with Carl Zeiss 50mm 1.7 T* Planar. I scanned using EPSON Scan and Silverfast 8. Below I am going to go over the results from using the ANR glass inserts. ![]() I opted to get two ANR glass inserts since that was fairly cheap and the easiest method. I did some research on ways to deal with this issue and some suggested buying new film holders and I also saw that you can get glass inserts for the stock film holder. Some of my film becomes very curved and does not lay flat in the film holder. I picked up an anti newton ring (ANR) glass insert for my Epson v600 which fits into the stock plastic 35mm film holder.
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