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I just got an Epson v600 and was going to scan in some negatives from my wedding in 1996. The negatives are a weird size and I can’t figure them out.

they look to be 40mm x 55mm or 1 3/4 x 2 1/2

im not even sure the insert will work and can’t identify the film size.

newbee here

jeff
 
I would expect that the bigger dimension would be 2 1/4" meaning 120 or 220 film, or even 70mm movie film. Is the film strip wide with the 2 1/4"/2 1/2" dimension going across the film? If so then you probably have a mask that will hold square 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" negatives. You might have 6cm x 4.5cm, called 645.

 
Thank you! Looks like it’s probably 120. I was able to see writing that says Kodak VPS6006.

scanner comes tomorrow so we’ll start to see how to get it going.
 
jeffm5690 said:
I just got an Epson v600 and was going to scan in some negatives from my wedding in 1996. The negatives are a weird size and I can’t figure them out.

they look to be 40mm x 55mm or 1 3/4 x 2 1/2

im not even sure the insert will work and can’t identify the film size.

newbee here

jeff
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In 1996 it will be 120 roll film so the standard film holders can be used.

Are they cut into separate frames or is it part of a strip?

In my case with Epson V700 I had to make some custom neg holders as some of my dad's old B&W from possibly 1920's and 1930's were some weird width that no Epson holder could accommodate. Made my holders out of scraps of black mat cardboard that I had lying about.

The trick is to get the film height correct above the glass, on the supplied neg/slide holders I needed to use the supplied little gizmos to raise the films a bit to get it into better focus. Experiments are needed.

I read though that the V600 has no height adjusters, so again needs experimenting with methods of raising the film and particularly using flattened films, curved films give problems with focus over the whole frame.
 
Yes, it is 6x4.5 mm film. The image is smaller than this to take into account the borders around the negative.
 
jeffm5690 said:
Thank you! Looks like it’s probably 120. I was able to see writing that says Kodak VPS6006.
scanner comes tomorrow so we’ll start to see how to get it going.
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Your Epson should have a medium-format film holder and (if it's like my V550) a black plastic card that has writing on one side and is shiny on the other -- you can use this to hold the film flat. If the film arches in the holder, the scan may be out of focus or too dark at the edges.

I find I get the best results if I use this card and scan fewer frames at a time -- not the whole length of the negative. That said, I find scanning 6x4.5 easier than 6x6 or 6x7.

HTH

Aaron
 
thinkinginimages said:
Those are 645 format using 120/220 film. The Mamiya or Pentax 645 come to mind.
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Ah! Memories.

That takes me back to my very complete Bronica ETRS system (6 x 4.5 cm), owned from 1983 to about 1995. Had 3 backs for 120 film (100 & 400 colour slide & B/W neg) one for 220 film plus a 35mm film back. Had 4 lenses wide to tele, 2x tele converter plus macro lens and bellows. Prism viewfinder and side grip. A delight to use, but a beast to carry (not all stuff carried at the same time of course).

Bought for something like Oz$6,000 and when sold on consignment in a Sydney shop eventually netted me something like Oz$10,000 - a seeming dollar profit but inflation was raging in the meantime. :-(

So nice to use, but my increasing age and camera size didn't match so got 35mm film after that until digital rolled in.

Went the whole hog and bought a 6x6 magazine type slide projector plus about 50 magazines to hold my trips in, made nice slide shows.

Sorry about that interruption, now back to the regular program....
 
Most wedding negatives precede a divorce.
 
Guy Parsons said:
thinkinginimages said:
Those are 645 format using 120/220 film. The Mamiya or Pentax 645 come to mind.
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Ah! Memories.

That takes me back to my very complete Bronica ETRS system (6 x 4.5 cm), owned from 1983 to about 1995. Had 3 backs for 120 film (100 & 400 colour slide & B/W neg) one for 220 film plus a 35mm film back. Had 4 lenses wide to tele, 2x tele converter plus macro lens and bellows. Prism viewfinder and side grip. A delight to use, but a beast to carry (not all stuff carried at the same time of course).

Bought for something like Oz$6,000 and when sold on consignment in a Sydney shop eventually netted me something like Oz$10,000 - a seeming dollar profit but inflation was raging in the meantime. :-(

So nice to use, but my increasing age and camera size didn't match so got 35mm film after that until digital rolled in.

Went the whole hog and bought a 6x6 magazine type slide projector plus about 50 magazines to hold my trips in, made nice slide shows.

Sorry about that interruption, now back to the regular program....
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Strange, but I've never used a Bronica or a Pentax. I know them from trade shows. The studios I worked out of usually had Mamiyas and Hasselblads. Big? The Mamiya RB/RZ 67 was huge!
 
thinkinginimages said:
Guy Parsons said:
thinkinginimages said:
Those are 645 format using 120/220 film. The Mamiya or Pentax 645 come to mind.
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Ah! Memories.

That takes me back to my very complete Bronica ETRS system (6 x 4.5 cm), owned from 1983 to about 1995. Had 3 backs for 120 film (100 & 400 colour slide & B/W neg) one for 220 film plus a 35mm film back. Had 4 lenses wide to tele, 2x tele converter plus macro lens and bellows. Prism viewfinder and side grip. A delight to use, but a beast to carry (not all stuff carried at the same time of course).

Bought for something like Oz$6,000 and when sold on consignment in a Sydney shop eventually netted me something like Oz$10,000 - a seeming dollar profit but inflation was raging in the meantime. :-(

So nice to use, but my increasing age and camera size didn't match so got 35mm film after that until digital rolled in.

Went the whole hog and bought a 6x6 magazine type slide projector plus about 50 magazines to hold my trips in, made nice slide shows.

Sorry about that interruption, now back to the regular program....
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Strange, but I've never used a Bronica or a Pentax. I know them from trade shows. The studios I worked out of usually had Mamiyas and Hasselblads. Big? The Mamiya RB/RZ 67 was huge!
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I went for KowaSix first and later for Bronica simply because they had in-lens shutters. Cheap Hassies, so to speak.

The KowaSix lenses were nicely designed so that once you had the setting right, then grab both aperture and shutter rings together and move them both for a neat "program shift" though of course no metering in that camera.

Bronica had metering in the prism viewer if I remember rightly.
 
'seems film photography is really making a comeback. (by all the threads I've been moving here lately...)
 
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