Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jhncates"
<jwcat@e...> wrote:
> --- 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.


This has jogged my memory, I have been carrying around two dozen
Rollei 6X6 Slide Frames I bought in Italy in 1970 and they use "anti
Newton cover glasses". Now to figure out which side of the glass is
which, and find a way to use them in the flatbed. My recent photos do
not look as sharp when printed as the slides I took in 1970. The B&W
and C-41 strips in particular.

John