Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sandersm@... [mailto:sandersm@...]
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:00 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 1712
>
>
> Martin Wesley writes:
>
(snip earlier)
>
> Yes, Microtek did widen the 120 carrier noticeably.   You still lose some
> image to the carrier, but not as much as with the Polaroid's.
> The trade-off is
> that the top carrier bracket, being thinner, feels more fragile
> and bendy.   I
> bought a glass carrier for the Microtek but returned it.   I
> wanted it for
> scanning negatives from edge to edge, but even with the glass carrier the
> scanner will not scan beyond the image into the film edges where
> frame numbers and
> film type are printed.   Whether this is a hardware or a software
> limitation, I
> do not know.   But the new stock carriers get close enough to the
> frame edge
> without resorting to the glass carrier -- close enough for me, at least.
>
Sanders,

Well it is good to know they worked on the carrier design. With the Polaroid
glass carrier I could get all of the image area of the negatives from my
Pentax 67 but just barely. Maybe they are limited by the width of the CCD
array.

Martin Wesley
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