Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting"
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jhncates" 
> <jwcat@e...> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Nope not out of the loop, I've been looking too. The information is 
> just not there. Even google didn't turn up much for wet mounting of 
> photographic slides, or my keywords were incredibly bad. Found a
lot of 
> hits on wetmounted specimen slides for use with a microscope. I'm
sure 
> the keywords I used were bad, but how bad can it be " wet mount 
> photographic slide" or "wet mount photo slide", etc. What I didn't
try 
> was "wetmount" as one word. The scanmax literature makes wet
mounting 
> sound like the second coming of slide scanning ---> reduced grain, 
> improved dmax, no scratches, etc.

I did the same thing. I am not saying he is a quack or anything, just
that I would not send any money(if I knew how much):) without knowing
more about the product. I did learn from searching the Epson 3200
group that he has some interesting thoughts about reducing un-needed
light around the carrier to improve the S/N ratio. It makes sense to
this layman.