Digital BW, The Print

My understanding is that 
> Konica Minolta
> put one of those pieces in their new 35 mm scanner, with an option of 
> moving it in or out of the light path.  

Not quite: Erik's talking about the diffuser in the now-discontinued
5400 ...there's no diffuser in the 5400II, which was introduced a year
ago, and can't be installed ....

Scanhancer DOES work with Nikon 50ED V's standard slide holder...so it
also works with film strips when you use FH-3 6-frame film strip
carrier. As well, that inexpensive optional carrier nicely flattens
ends of strips  (Minolta carrier requires negatives be mounted in
slide mounts if one wants similar flatness).

Nikon V with Ice/infared scans color & B&W @ 4000ppi in 2.5 minutes to
PSCS2 with 2.8G P-IV (Minolta 5400II, which I replaced with Nikon,
also scanned 2.5 min).  

I rarely need to do much spotting of silver B&W film: 1) habitual care
with film cleanliness due to long reliance on glass negative carriers
in enlargers and glass slide mounts 2) distilled water post-wash bath
(commercial labs filter but the water's not as clean as distilled) 3)
Nikon's automated SA-21 optical-positioning carrier requires virtually
no film handling (therefore no hand oils), 4) I work to minimize
finger contact when using the finicky FH-3 carrier and 5) Tiger Cloth
on film when my fingers do come in contact with it
6)use side opening negative sleeves, rather than end opening type.

John Kelly


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