Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Djon"
<westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
> 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
> 
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>

I have joined the Scanmax group to get more information on wet
mounting using this product. Not many hard facts to be found there, at
least by me. There is a brochure, but product is not described, nor
are prices given. I may be just out of the loop, and have missed
something, but bells started ringing for me. I have requested more
information from the group. I am just looking for a way to flatten
slides that I scan on an Epson 3200.