Digital BW, The Print

I've used the Kami fluid on a friend's flat-bed scanner for MF film
and found it to be quite fussy (removing bubbles between the film and
the glass and the cover sheet) and that the fluid left a hazy film
that did not wash off easily, thus interfering with dry scanning
(likewise for the film?). Further, the fluid is pretty volatile, so
that it could be seen to be shrinking in from the edges as I was
getting ready to run the scan.

I would rather spend the time cleaning up a bit of dust and very minor
scratches than take all that trouble for my images, but, then I'm not
plagued with old dirty, dusty, film.

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "peterzakos"
<peterzakos@y...> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.  A while back I posted a question about using a fluid-mount 
> film holder with the Nikon 8000/9000 scanner but got no replies.  
> Doesn't anyone on this forum use Kami (i.e."lighter fluid") to mount 
> their film for scanning?  I've heard that it helps a lot with dust, 
> scratches and Newton rings in comparison to the Nikon medium format 
> glass holder.  I do not experience these problems to a significant 
> degree but I was wondering if there are any other benefits to fluid 
> mounting in comparison to glass-only (e.g. sharpnes, resolution, 
> tone, etc?).  If so, are any additional benefits significant/notable 
> enough to warrant the $500 pricetag for such holder kit.  The only 
> source I know of is Aztek.  Does anyone know of any other (i.e. less 
> expensive) sources?
> Thanks, Peter.