Digital BW, The Print

Yes, maintain doubt....but consider: 

1) Aztek shows images from the 8000, not the superior 9000 or 5000 
or (sharpness-wise, not Dmax-wise) the inexpensive V. 

2) they show the edge...where the dual format Nikons and Minoltas 
notoriously have trouble...the V does well flatness-wise (motorized 
film transport) but other inexpensive film scanners with 
conventional plastic negative carriers (Nikon IV, Minolta 5400II) 
have more trouble there. 

3) Nikon itself sells a glass carrier for the 8000 and 9000 that 
reportedly deals with edge-softness...wildly expensive. I've seen a 
recent home-made version online somewhere, a good idea (maybe better 
than Nikon because it's anti-newton).

4) Since Aztek is the primary supplier for wet-mount materials in 
the US and many of their clients also use Nikon scanners, I think 
they'd refrain from exaggeration...they'd get strong feedback from 
more hard-nosed-scanning-experts, the people to whom they sell big 
printers and industrial scanners.

5) And of course, wet mounting certainly IS the way professional 
scanning is done, so we might expect to see significant improvement 
from it... 

Does anybody here have direct experience with wet mounting on 
flatbeds or Nikons? 

If a B&W shooter was seriously committed to maximum Dmax and 
sharpness from large or medium-format negs, using Epson 
3200/4870/4990 or dual format Nikon/Minolta, I would think they'd 
explore wet mounting...

?  any intense scanning experience here ? 

Djon



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roy 
<thinkgreen@s...> wrote:
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> >On the Aztek site there's a Nikon 8000 wet-mount Vs standard
> >comparison that's especially convincing....
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> >http://www.aztek.com/Products/NIKONKAMIHOLDER.htm
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> 
> That's blatantly poor. I think I'm going to chose to be suspect of 
that 
> example..I 've seen too many good scans of negatives for something 
that 
> soft to be the standard and I can't believe something like that 
could have 
> gotten past the film vs digital debate. I'm a real neophyte at 
this and can 
> easily and willingly be corrected but that's just my reaction.
> 
> 
> Peace
> 
> Roy