Digital BW, The Print

I used Canon 9950 and returned it. Then I used Minolta Dimage Pro, 
and it died recently and was bought back by Sony. I spent the pay 
back to Epson V750. I was skeptical when I ordered it, but there are  
few options for MF film scanner on the market. Today, several weeks 
later I could tell that this machine is better than Canon. On scans 
up to 1600 dpi it produces images about the same quality as Minolta. 
You could modify OEM holders and live with it, no need to pay Doug 
Fisher, and you could wet mount your film on the bottom of the glass 
on Epson wet mount holder.
Besides of wet mount holder (in US) V750 package adds useful software 
and IT8 target. In my opinion it does worth extra $200 even without  
holder.
If you want to build home made holder and don't need SilverFast and 
IT8 target, you could buy V700, it still will be better than 9950f, 
and probably better than Epson 4990.

--Sergei

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter De Smidt 
<pdesmidt@...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Peter. I also do scan color negs. Do you still recommend 
on the 
> > cheaper scanner? Does the glass carrier mounts on top of the 
glass for 
> > both color & black & white or only for the fluid mount?
> > Sincerely,
> > Pierre-Olivier
> You'd only use the homemade glass carrier for use with wet-
mounting.  
> You could use it for both color and bw, although some films will 
benefit 
> more than others.  All curly films will benefit, though, because 
they'll 
> be held very flat.  You can try mounting negatives below the glass 
with 
> tape but no fluid, but you will probably get Newton's rings.  You 
can 
> use anti-Newton glass (or what's cheaper Anti-glare picture framing 
> glass). Both of these have a texture that minimizes the rings.  
> Depending on your scanner, though, the texture might show up in 
your scans.
> 
> -Peter
>