Digital BW, The Print

My studio-mate Chris Faust does medium format
panoramic photography - quite well I might add.  You
can view his work via his link at our Studio 210 site.
(Maybe if I can get a bit of time off from my medical
practice - I'll get something posted too!) There are
also huge collages of his work in the MSP airport.


When i got my previous generation Canon flatbed I made
a "carrier" for his negs using 8-ply black matte-board
that fit into the same space as the 35mm strip holder
and it worked OK. We merely taped the neg by its edges
onto the holder with 3M photo tape.  He later cut a
better one out of black plastic of a similar thickness
which is quite a bit stiffer but still uses the tape.
He gets entirely acceptable scans even for large
poster sized prints especially using the Silver-Fast
software since the Canon-Scan software (how to put
this delicately?) sucks.
 
Keeping the 8x10" big boys flat is going to be more
challenging.  I'll probably give one of these simple
methods a try but am certainly open to any good ideas
- especially if based upon success although sharing
the "agony of defeat" might spare me some pain.

Thanks...Michael

--- mwesley3 <mwesley250@...> wrote:

> Ken, Gary,
> 
> A company called "invent it" used to sell
> refrigerator magnet 
> material for inkjet printing in 8.5X11 sheets that
> was roughly the 
> same thickness as the flatbed negative holders. Some
> people had 
> sucess cutting out negative holders and using the
> magnetic force to 
> hold the two pieces together with the negative in
> between. Wet 
> mounting is prefered but with an 8X10 neg on on an
> letter size 
> scanner it might be tough.
> 
> Martin
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "Ken Carney" 
> <kcarney1@...> wrote:
> >
> > Gary,
> > 
> > I have the 4990 and it is a good scanner,
> especially at the 
> price.  It is
> > not going to compete with a professional drum
> scan, but for me it 
> is "good
> > enough".  I do have an issue scanning b&w 8x10
> negs, in that 
> the "film
> > guide" supplied by Epson for that scanner is
> worthless, even 
> before my cat
> > chewed it in half.  It does not elevate the
> negative off the 
> scanner glass,
> > as the 4x5 holders do.  Therefore you will need to
> find some way 
> to deal
> > with Newton rings, such as Kami fluid, or
> fabricating a negative 
> holder that
> > will hold the negative flat and off the glass.
> > 
> > Ken 
> > 
> (snip)
> 
> 
> 
> 


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