Digital BW, The Print

> Good news.
> I asked him several things last week among them to add the Grey Lab and 
> RGB Lab space profiles of QTR to Vuescan but it will not happen.
> Well scanning at 16 bit and assigning 2.2 Gamma to the Tiff and 
> converting that to Grey Lab in PSCS will not change much in the data 
> anyway but it is a bit less elegant. The other question was for an extra 
> code for the Nikon 8000 wet mount carrier so I can get the maximum area 
> possible in one scan on the 8000, it is however hardcoded in the 
> firmware of the scanner so I can forget that.

He already fixed the glass holder ten minutes ago.

But now there's some problems with Vuescan recognizing the entire 
preview area. I can't reach the last (rightmost) frame of a 35mm strip 
placed on the glass holder. I'm hoping he'll fix that too.

I had a look inside my 120tf once. I noticed that the way the hardware 
was designed it would be impossible to scan a larger area than 6x9cm 
atone time. Basically the film holder is positioned inside a cage with a 
6x9cm opening, and then the cage and the film holder together is pulled 
under the sensor to scan the film. Scanning a larger area would require 
interrupting the scanning, repositioning the holder iside the cage and 
then doing another scan. Maybe there's something similar going on with 
the 8000?

> It needs a wet mount carrier then like I have made for the Nikon 8000.  
> Never had a 120tf carrier in my hands so can't judge whether it is possible

You can easily remove the top glass plate and wet mount on the bottom 
one. I tried it with lighter fluid and it worked well, except that the 
lighter fluid evaporated too quickly for me to reliably finish the whole 
scan.

I know you're supposed to cover the film with a second sheet of acetate 
or something, but then you're back to additional surfaces collecting 
dust. Is there a reliable way to do this without covering the film with 
another surface of some sort?

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no