House on Battle Road

Swung by the Minuteman National Park, totally randomly yesterday, as I had some time to kill. Interesting place.

 

Anyway, I've had my new Epson V700 scanner for all of a week or so now, and I'm starting to hate the little fucker's guts.

 

The software that came with it (SilverFast SE) sucks hard ass; auto selection of frames is a joke (never works); UI is slow & clunky; and it is seriously lacking in what you would think are very basic features like... selecting all crops (so that you can apply settings universally). Rather, you have to select one frame, apply the setting, then "Option/Ctrl + click" all the other frames one at a time to "copy&paste" those settings. Argh!! IDIOTIC.

 

 

And then, this; these lines that show up on the edge.

 

First I thought it was my camera/back. But the lines aren't in the negatives. Then I read that gunk in the "calibration area" could have effect across the entire film. So I wiped the glass clean with microfiber, and I blow off dust before each scan. It don't matter.

 

Then I read here:

photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00PWGu

 

that it's a hardware issue, and––get this––they apparently don't have a fix for this???

 

How can that be?????? How can V700 users stand these lines showing up all the time?????

 

 

I sincerely hope it's a defect with this unit and exchanging the scanner will get rid of it, cuz there's no friggin' way I'm going to crop 5% from all my scans and/or spend 15 minutes removing these things manually in PS.

 

 

Rolleiflex SL66 + Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8 + Fuji Neopan 100 Acros, DD-X 10 min @ 20˚C

Done