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Re: [Digital BW] wet mount scanning - what's "better".. printers or scanners?

2005-05-10 by Roy

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>What I gather is that a dedicated film scanner with a wet mounted 
>film is the real choice to have. The Nikons have an optional glass 
>carrier (at least for MF) that you might be able to wet mount your 
>film too. Not sure if you could do the same with 35mm or not.
>
>The printer will not have as much range as the scanner, but you want 
>everything you can get for image manipulation. Some printers claim 
>dmax at 2.x on glossy, and better than 1.6 on matte, so 4.x should be 
>a whole world more.
>
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>
Thanks for the info. Not that I'd buy one, but it seems that a decent 
flat bed may actually suffice for the most part..

Peace

Roy
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