Digital BW, The Print

I will get you the info tonight or tomorrow.  Initially, I contacted 
Julio through one of the groups and hooked up with him via email.  
Then he emailed me his price sheet.  I spent about $100 for the 
initial kit, including some additional items. Additional formats are 
less expensive since many of the items are duplicates.  Get the 
rubber roller instead of the squeege, more expensive and much 
better.  You may be able to obtain the rubber roller thru a local 
art supply for less than Julio charges, my wife already had one.

Cheers,
Randy

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