Digital BW, The Print

On wet mounting.

It depends. For 35mm film I usually rely on the normal Nikon 
LS-8000 strip holder and no glass at all. Which was the 
subject of this thread as far as I know. For MF up to 6x9 my 
own wet mount system is very reliable in getting the grain 
sharp on every spot in the frame. That holder is also 
tweaked to get focus as equal as possible on all the spots 
for the first and the second frame (6x9). There are no 
issues like Newton rings and there's some gain in light 
transmission when the emulsion surface of B&W film is matte 
(less scattering). I'm sure most of this goes unnoticed when 
you do not use a print above A3 size. Film strips that had a 
rough past can be healed with wet mounting and ICE. For the 
Epson V700 etc models and larger films the same advantages 
of wet mounting apply.

The last Minolta 35 mm scanner hasn't been mentioned. No 
longer produced it probably is hard to get but with its own 
Scanhancer inspired screen it is good competition to the 
recent Nikon 35mm models.


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Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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