thin green line on negative scans

[bzcam]

I had the same problem with my V600 and was searching for the solution when I found your post. I cleaned the flatbed glass, the transparency glass in the lid and took a can of dust off and blasted the film holder and all of its little calibration holes with it. After a thorough cleaning, the purple line went away. It is definitely a dust or debris problem. Hope this helps.

BZ

 

[Josh66]

GAH! The green line just started showing up for me too. This is the first I've seen of it, and I've scanned thousands of frames with this scanner. And I just cleaned it today too...

It is not on every frame though...

 

[Derrel]

GAH! The green line just started showing up for me too. This is the first I've seen of it, and I've scanned thousands of frames with this scanner. And I just cleaned it today too...

It is not on every frame though...

Oh, no...Josh, you didn't watch that videotape "The Circle" within the last 24 hours, did you??? [wink] If you did---your scanner is going to die within the next day!!!!!!!!! Ack!!!!!!

 

[Josh66]

Too early to say for sure, but it seems to be related to boosting the exposure in the scanner. Frames that were a little under exposed had it, but properly exposed ones didn't.

 

[Josh66]

I deleted most of the ones it showed up on, but here are three-


2011112811 by J E, on Flickr

It's there on B&W too, but it's obviously not green-


2011112820 by J E, on Flickr


2011112821 by J E, on Flickr



Roughly center of frame (the line is horizontal) on the B&W ones. Now that I see it on the B&Ws, I have seen it before, but didn't make the connection.

I keep my scanner pretty clean, so I don't see how it could be dust or anything...