Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Randy Rancier"
<randy_rancier2004@y...> wrote:
> I've ordered Julio's kit. It is very well put together and I generally 
> felt that it was worth the money.  Although you may be right that one 
> might be able to put the kit together one's self.  While this may be 
> tempting, I like to spend my time creating photographs rather than 
> creating equipment and then modifying it until I get it figured out 
> and how it should work. Julio has already done all of the trial and 
> error, which is partly what you are paying for.  I don't mind people 
> making a profit if I feel I benefit from their products.
> 
> The kit consist of a mask that holds the the glass with wet mounted 
> film to it.  The mask comes with additional mask of varying 
> thickness's so that you can determine the optimum thickness which will 
> give you optimum focus with your individual scanner.
> 
> I will agree that Julio isn't a great technical writer; I found the 
> manual that comes with the kit a little difficult to understand as 
> well, but was able to figure things out fairly easily.
> 
> One thing I would recommend is to not order the 35mm kit. As I had a 
> very difficult time getting the film to flatten out on the glass.  
> What I would recommend with 35mm film is to use the 120 film holder; 
> where there is more area for the clear cover sheet to hold the 35mm 
> film down flat. And then use small pieces of the mask material, which 
> Julio includes to mask out the area around the negitive or slide.
> 
> Randy
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting" 
> <dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> > To me the kit sounds like some kind of fluid (of course), and after 
> > that I'm not sure. These scanners seem to want to focus film about 
> 1mm 
> > off the glass, so do you just get some 1mm thick anti-Newton glass 
> and 
> > some kind of fluid to stick the slide to the A.N. glass? (anti-
> Newton 
> > side goes down toward scanner glass???)
> > 
> > The only thing I found while searching for answers was that removing 
> > the glass from your scanner had a very slight effect on the 
> resulting 
> > scan. Not really enough to bother, and it wasn't in reference to wet 
> > mounting either.

Randy, where did you get enough information to order the kit? I am
interested in 35MM and your observations are of interest.

Thanks...John