Medium Format / Epson V700 Unidentified scanning issue

[NorthAtlantic]

Hello,

Ive been successfully scanning 35mm film with my Plustek 8100 for a while now. I recently picked up a medium format camera and have started scanning with an Epson V700 I have have access to. Seem to be encountering an issue where every image has an outlined effect like the attached pictures which is really odd. I scanned in Silverfast and haven't applied any sharpening at all or additional contrast.

Any ideas what might be causing this and how to remedy. Im just using the standard film holders.

Many thanks

Ben

 

[NorthAtlantic]

Ive done some experiments and this appears to only happen on Silverfast - Vuescan doesn't outline parts of the image. I should add that im using the demo's of both versions currently. All I can think is with Silverfast that on the demo only the generic negfix is available.

 

[koraks]

Do you have ICE enabled? It kind of looks like that. It doesn't work on B&W materials.
I use Epson Scan and just disable all adjustments; this generally works great. Scan in 16 bit and do contrast adjustments etc. manually using curves.

Settings as shown above will result in consistent scans with no adjustments. It's what I use for B&W film.

 

[NorthAtlantic]

Many thanks for your reply and information. I had disabled ice and sharpening and scanning in 16bit greyscale like I do with my 35mm film. It's strange because if I scan the same image in Vuescan this outline issue disappears. Id prefer to resolve the issue in silverfast as im familiar with it after years of scanning 35mm but can't see anything obvious causes for this.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Have you tried flipping the film over?

 

[NorthAtlantic]

Thanks Alan, that sorted it! Much appreciated. The other issue that made this worse was id cut my film strips a little short so the end frame was only supported on the edges, not the end but was fine once id moved it to be fully supported.

Thanks again

Ben