Digital BW, The Print

Hi Justin,

> From my experience, the curved
> film mounting really does help.  Not only can you see even
> severely curved film snap into a perfectly flat plane when you
> bend the film holder in your hand, but I am getting edge to edge
> sherpness I wasn't seeing when I did tests with the Polaroid and
> their standard film holders; I have no experience with the glass
> holders.

That's very good information.  Thanks!  I've never had a film flatness issue
with my Leafscan, and I've always wondered if it really made a difference
with the Imacon.  The Nikon scanners appear to have film flatness issues,
because their DOF is so narrow.

> The Imacon Photo model will do 35mm up to 6x18.  It can do
> 4x5, but it takes two passes.  It would take too long to explain
> here exactly how it fits, but a 4x5 will fit in the 6x18 holder and you
> need to run it through the machine twice and stitch it together in
> Photoshop, which is really simple.  All the other Imacon models
> will scan a 4x5 in one pass.

Interesting.  At least it supports it.

> > Do you have to mount each frame individually, as in cut each
> frame out of a
> > strip?
>
> Yes, sort of.  If the frame you want to scan is at the end of a strip,
> you can mount that frame in the holder's window and let the rest
> of the strip dangle out of the machine as it does the scan.  It
> really isn't as awkward as it sounds when I describe it.  However
> if you want to scan a neg that is in the middle of a strip, you will
> need to cut it; but only one cut is necessary because it just
> needs to be at the end of a strip, not necessarily an individual
> frame.

That would bum me out!  Is that true for 35mm?  I can't imaging having to
have all my 35mm film cut into strips two long!

Regards,

Austin