8 mm film holder/adapter made for Epson Perfection V700/750/800/850 scanners

Description

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Custom manufactured film holder for Super 8 mm and Regular 8 mm movie film (Patent Pending).  This model is designed for use with Epson Perfection
V700, V750, V800 and V850
flatbed film scanners.  Please inquire about customization options for other scanner models.  Please note that this will
not
work with regular flatbed scanners that do not feature the backlight necessary to scan negatives and films.  8 mm film was created in the 1920s and quickly became the most popular home movie format.  Usage of 8 mm film lasted well in to the 1980s until VHS cameras finally became affordable.  8 mm film is still manufactured and continues to have a niche with film students.
A few notes about scanning 8 mm film:
8 mm movie film was never intended to be used (and subsequently scanned) as a still photo format.  The frames are extremely small and you cannot expect to extract an image of the same quality you could from a 35 mm film.  This is a newly designed model that finally allows for full frame 8 mm scanning.  With our old model, few customers noticed or cared that they were not able to get 100% edge-to-edge scanning.  The new model features two cut out sections as displayed in the photos above.  The two sections that are borderless are 38.5 mm in length.  If full frame scanning isn't critical to your needs, you can scan the entire frame all at once.  For those frames where you want to capture the entire image, you align those images in one of the two borderless areas
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Important: Our film adapters for flatbed scanners are not designed to be used with uncut filmstrips.  You may need to cut your film to adapter length for proper use.  Also please note that this item comes with one holder.  Photo above shows disassembled two halves of the adapter.
Specifications:
Outside dimensions:  200 x 55 mm
Scanning window:  190 x 6.70 mm
Material:  Solid plastic
Features:  Unlike some models, this holder features a recessed film channel that holds your filmstrip firmly while also helping avoid scratches.
Epson 800/850 users:
Due to the built in anti-newton glass in your OEM holders, you will
not
be able to use your stock 120 holder for alignment, as described below.  For best usage, you will need your film area guide to aid in proper alignment for scanning.
Important:  This negative holder is designed to sit inside the stock 120 film holder (directly on the glass) that shipped with your Canon or Epson scanner.  Utilizing your 120 OEM holder may not be strictly necessary with some scanners, but utilizing your stock holder aids in proper positioning and can help avoid calibration and focus issues
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SPECIAL NOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS BUYING MULTIPLE ITEMS
:  Ebay has recently changed rules for international buyers.  Depending on where you live, you may not be able to combine shipping or ask me to send an invoice before paying.  The system may require to pay immediately as well as to pay for separate shipping on each item.  If this happens to you, I have a policy of always reimbursing excess shipping charges on multiple items to international buyers.  Once I have all your items packaged up together and weighed, I will refund any excess shipping costs to you.
Important additional notes:
- If you are buying my holders for resale, please be aware that my products are more about "function" over "form."  This is why they are so inexpensive compared to other commercially produced options.  Each holder is custom made and may contain spot sanding and other finishing marks.  I do my best to clean my products up cosmetically, but due to sales volume I simply can't spend a lot of time on it.  My main concern is that it works like it is supposed to.  As a result, if you are reselling please be aware that you may need to do some more finishing work suitable for a retail environment.
- Aftermarket holders for odd film sizes will usually require the ability to manually scan film strips with "thumbnail" modes turned off.  Depending on your model and software, masking of individual frames for scanning may be necessary for the best results.  Please ensure you know how to set your scanner/software for full manual control.  Simply pushing a green button on the front of your scanner (common with Epson models) to scan a film strip will not work with most aftermarket film holders.
- Please pay particular attention to the "handling" days before shipping as noted above.  I do not typically maintain an inventory of my film holders as most are custom made upon order placement.  As such, I ask for 5 business days handling before shipping.  My average is likely around 2 days, but there are occasions where orders are very high and I may need all 5 business days before I am able to ship your holder.  Please keep this in mind.
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The holder you order may or may not completely take up the space inside your 120 or 35 mm OEM holders.  Customers sometimes ask why I simply don't make them so they fit perfectly inside the appropriate OEM holder.  The issue with this is two-fold.  First, my max build is just below the length of most OEM holders.  Second, I've found that many OEM holders, even within the same model, can be off by a millimeter or two.  So if I made a holder for an Epson V700 that fit perfectly for one customer, the next customer with the exact same model might find the holder is too tight to fit their OEM film frames.  Thus it's better to leave some "wiggle" room.  Another customer asked what the "point" is of having to use the 120 or 35 mm OEM frames to begin with.  Why not just put my holders straight down on the glass?  There are two reasons for this:  1) OEM holders have special markings on them that tell your scanner how to focus appropriately.  Without using your OEM frame, some scanners will refuse to scan altogether or the scan will be out of focus.  2) Using an OEM frame helps keep my aftermarket holder (and your negative) as straight as possible for scanning.
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