Digital BW, The Print

There are wet mount kits for all of the the recent Nikons including the Coolscan V.  Go to www.scanscience.com for a list of wet mount kits made for various dedicated film 
scanners, wet mounts can be used with any flatbed scanners designed to work with film.  
Yes many of the improvements are small, but all of them together can make a big 
difference in editing in PhotoShop.  Also, sometimes it is the small improvements that 
make the difference between an ok or good image and a great one.

Thanks for your comments,
Randy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@...> 
wrote:
>
> 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
>