WTB: 5x4 film holder for Epson 4990

[Pat_Mo]

I'm looking for a 5x4 film holder for Epson 4990 ... or the better scanning mount.
Paypal preferred payment method.
Cheers
Pat

[dave_whatever]

I don't know if this is any good to you, but I use a piece of antireflective glass from my local picture framers held an appropriate distance off the scanner bed as a faux-betterscanning holder. It works really well, no newtons rings, and costs a couple of quid.

[Pat_Mo]

I don't know if this is any good to you, but I use a piece of antireflective glass from my local picture framers held an appropriate distance off the scanner bed as a faux-betterscanning holder. It works really well, no newtons rings, and costs a couple of quid.

Hi Dave,
sounds like a plan! Do you guage the distance through trial and error? How do you elevate the glass?
Cheers
Pat

[dave_whatever]

Yeah you just use trial and error. I used peices of thin card stacked up. There's a large degree of tolerance though, so you don't need to worry about being ultra precise. Luckily the final distance ended up being about the thickness of a 1 pence piece, so i use one at each corner of a piece of 8x10 glass.

[Paul Mitchell]

A friend of mine (and member here) Buze has just posted a guide to scanning using glass on his 4990 http://forum.manualfocus.org/viewtopic.php?id=16980

Paul

[Pat_Mo]

A friend of mine (and member here) Buze has just posted a guide to scanning using glass on his 4990 http://forum.manualfocus.org/viewtopic.php?id=16980

Paul

How cool is that?
It looks so simple and cheap (which are two of my outstanding qualities, so my wife says).
Many thanks for the link.
Cheers
Pat