Digital BW, The Print

Randy, I too, am interested in the kit and would appreciate hearing from you, off line your reaction to scanning either the 35 mm or med format negs. Particularly, if you are able to compare the wet scans on the Epson vs. some dry scans on either the Nikon 4000, or the Minolta Dimage 5400.
Thanks,
Alan Zimmerman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Randy Rancier 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] wet mount scanning


  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.




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