Digital BW, The Print

djon43 wrote:
> I should have added this...it's the tool they were discussing:
> 
> http://betterscanning.com/

Doug gave me a wet mount carrier to review and it is good. 
The wet mount system he based it on is the method I 
developed 3-4 years ago on Epson scanners, Doug's method of 
focus height control is better than Epson's or other third 
party solutions. Black plastic sheets to make custom sized 
masks are included in the package. However one should lock 
the carrier position on the scanner with some self adhesive 
tabs to close it in, makes it more convenient to work with.

With the budget mentioned and the amount of work to do I 
would recommend to get two V700's + two carriers, and maybe 
4 glass sheets. That would allow continuous operation while 
the investment is still low compared to other solutions. For 
the negatives that are too fragile for wet mounting: Doug's 
carrier glass is also having a anti-newton surface on one side.

With the variety of emulsions in old negatives I would 
recommend to use a scanner driver like Vuescan. The 
multi-sampling and exposure time control it has may be 
needed for that kind of negatives. Use color scans when 
emulsion show artifacts that can be healed in color editing.



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Met vriendelijke groeten,  Ernst


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