Digital BW, The Print

Here's Julio's email address.  Email him and he will be glad to 
email you his price list for his wet mounting kit.

gluemax@...

Randy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Randy Rancier" 
<randy_rancier2004@y...> wrote:
> 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