The 35mm strip film holder has slots for two strips, and I find film plane parallelism better with a strip of film in both (whether I'm scanning both or not). I use a blank strip for that purpose. Nikon supplies a blank strip to prevent flare, but it's thicker than film and I think may throw parallelism off.
I dismount slides and tape (stretching) to the smooth side of the grey half of a Weiss plastic mount, then put that into the slide holder. I took the thin aluminum framing mask out of the mount, and the cutout is then oversized. Using only half the mount, the film plane is where it should be. The medium format strip holder takes a little practice, but once you get the "feel" it's pretty easy to use and gets film flat, except when there's an unsupported free end near live image area. The middle of that end tends to go out of focus, so I try to cut film so the important frame has a little extra on the free end. Or one can tape a blank extension to that end if necessary. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:30 PM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: new 4x5 Nikon scanner? Dave, So what's the trick with the Nikon film holders? (I'm waiting for delivery of an LS-8000) �ke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave King Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: new 4x5 Nikon scanner? *IF* the rumor's true, hope they do the stretchy one. (We don need no stinkin banana's:) It took me a little practice to master the Nikon holders, but after a week or so I've been getting consistently sharp scans. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
