Epson Scan 2 (v6.4.87) Mac - can't preview dark edge negatives

[Jock Bell]

Hi, apologies if this has been answered previously, I've searched but can't find an answer.

I've noticed that the Epson scanning software struggles to preview negatives with dark borders and clearly is looking for well defined/high contrast edges. There is no functionality that I can see that allows you to manually set a marquee box. Are there any workarounds? I'm using the standard 120 neg tray that comes with the V600.

thanks in advance

120 negatives
Epson V600 scanner
Epson Scan 2 (v6.4.87) Mac

 

[Marco Andrés]

The frame of the standard square in 120 film is 56x56mm [complete sizes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_film#Frame_sizes]
Specify

• Pull down the menu and set Scan Settings to Not Selected. Now you can specify the size and position of each frame.
• Document source: Transparency Unit
• Document type: color negative/color positive/black and white negative film
• Image type
• Resolution
• Scanning quality
• Color management: color control [to manipulate in scan 2] none [to manipulate in Photoshop/Gimp/…]
• Image format
• File name [click on it]
• Folder

To specify the exact frame size and position:=

• Specify a marquee: Press the mouse button down and drag out the area.
• Resize the marquee: press inside the marquee. The pointer changes to a hand.

Method 1: Move to the boundary of the marquee. The pointer changes to an up/down arrow. Then adjust.
Method 2: At the bottom of the image of the film strip, change the Input Image size [56 x 56 mm].​

• To move the marque, click the mouse button in the image, the pointer becomes a hand. Drag it.

Fine adjustments: Click on the magnifier. Then adjust. To return to the normal view, click again on the icon in the same place, otherwise you cannot scan.

To select the other frames;

• Method1: Save the frame [scan settings ->save current settings and give it a name]. Then make sure to specify that setting [Scan Settings -> frame name]
• Method 2: Select the frame by clicking within it .

In both cases, select the + icon below and then move the frame.

Press the auto icon to set the image before fine tuning.

Finally to scan, select the frames [on Mac press the clover-leaf key. Otherwise it will only scan one frame.

You can delete a frame [lock icon beneath the magnifying glass]

Hope that helps

• Fortunately the next time you launch Epson Scan 2, the frames will be highlighted.
• When you duplicate a frame, all the settings will be the same as the frame being copied.

FYI: The latest version of Epson Scan 2 is 6.4.95 [mine only shows v550/v700/v750]

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I don't use Epsonscan 2. However, my regular Epsonscan for Windows has a select box for the size of medium format films. 6x7, 6x6, etc. You click on Configuration at the bottom. Then, one of the tabs of the page it go to is for MF. There is where you select the size. Maybe that will help.

 

[Jock Bell]

Marco, many thanks for the comprehensive reply. Much appreciated!

 

[Jock Bell]

many thanks Alan!

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I don't use Epsonscan 2. However, my regular Epsonscan for Windows has a select box for the size of medium format films. 6x7, 6x6, etc. You click on Configuration at the bottom. Then, one of the tabs of the page it go to is for MF. There is where you select the size. Maybe that will help.

Here's a picture for this. First page shout be in Pro mode and for Film, of course.