Digital BW, The Print

I have a Nikon Coolscan V  and a Screen Cezanne scanner.  The Coolscan 
works very well with fine-grained negatives.  When scanning film strips, 
I've found the FH-3 carrier to give much better edge-to-edge sharpness 
than the motorized gate/carrier.   I'm not sure, though, how you'd 
wet-scan with the nikon.  (Lot's of people wet scan with a Coolscan 8000 
or 9000, but that's a medium format scanner.)  I do wet scan, using 
either Kami or Prazio mounting fluids, with the Cezanne, which is a 
large pro flatbed.  Fluid mounting will minimize the grain increase that 
most scanners have, especially with grainy film, but it is a fairly 
small improvement.  The big plus is being able to keep the negative 
perfectly flat, which can be hard to do without a glass carrier, and 
these can have problems with Newton's rings.

Good luck,
Peter