Digital BW, The Print

Alessandro

Great!  I shall get some Kami fluid and try to emulate your success.    I take it that absolutley flat film is required, or does the surface tension of the fluid keep it flat?  Also, how do you get alignment of the frame to be scanned?  It seems that it might be difficult to get the frame square in the mddle of the 4"x5" frame.

Regards.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alessandro Pardi 
  To: 'DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com' 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:43 AM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Epson3200 - Test results


  Simon,

  step-by-step:

  1) Put the epson carrier on the glass. I think that if you skip this step
  the scanner may have problems in calibrating.
  2) Put a few drops of fluid on the glass, in the 4x5" area. My first try was
  2 drops, but this is barely enough to cover the 6x7 surface: with 4 you get
  some fluid overflowing, but that's not a big issue. 
  3) Place one edge of the film down on the fluid, then gently bend the film
  to avoid air being trapped (in my first attempt I got a couple air bubbles,
  and they are definitely visible in the final scan).
  4) Scan away.
  5) Remove the film. The fluid very quickly evaporates. Kami say that it
  leaves no residues, both on film and on glass: this isn't completely true,
  but I don't feel it's a problem.

  BTW I started these tests to verify whether focus plane was on glass, or
  where the carrier keeps the film, or anywhere in between. Laying the film on
  the glass with no fluid gives NO better results on my scanner, and generates
  Newton rings. So the better quality I get with the KAMI isn't due to
  focusing, but to the fluid itself.

  Alessandro

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Simon Lamb [mailto:simon@...]
  Sent: martedì 4 marzo 2003 10:23
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson3200 - Test results


  Alessandro

  An impressive result.  I am getting some great scans from the 3200 now,
  especially since I swapped to Silverfast Ai and calibrated the scanner with
  the reflective and transparent targets.  Even the Delta 100 black and white
  scans are much better.  To the untrained and non-critical eye they are not
  that different from the Flextight Photo at normal viewing distance.

  Can you provide some step by step instructions for how you are mounting the
  images you scanned.  Are you using fluid direclty on the platten or have you
  fabricated a glass carrier?

  Thanks for working to show how scans can be improved.

  Simon
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Alessandro Pardi 
    To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:05 AM
    Subject: [Digital BW] Epson3200 - Test results


    Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I thought some may be interested in the
    performance of this new scanner.
    Tests I made are not comparison with other scanners (you can find plenty
  of
    them on the web), but simply how to get the best out of it. As you can see
    in the following image:

    http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1341299
  <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1341299&size=lg> &size=lg

    I found that the Kami fluid SXL 2001 is well worth the trouble of both
    finding it and using it (it's a bit messy, although less than I feared).
    Technical details in the photo.net page should fully explain the test, but
    feel free to ask for further information.

    The following is the first "real" scan (not including tests, I mean) I
  made
    with the Epson:

    http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1339580
  <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1339580&size=lg> &size=lg

    all other photographs in my photo.net folders are 35mm scanned with a
  Canon
    FS 4000.


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