Digital BW, The Print

I saw a reference to Kammi fluid in one of the posts on this list. Can
someone tell me what Kammi fluid is?

Thanks

Scott

Scott,

This is a "mounting fluid" used by drum scanner operators to mount 
negatives or transparencies to the drum for scanning. If can also be 
used with flatbed scanners to mount negatives for scanning.

George DeWolfe described wet mounting negs on a flatbed scanner in an 
article in Camera Arts one or two issues back. I will look it up for 
you if you are interested. George used mineral oil but the Kami SXL 
2001 fluid is supposed to be nicer to work with in that it is 
specifically made for this application and is easier to clean off the 
scanner and your negative.

Basically a small puddle of mounting fluid is placed on the scanner 
glass, the negative is laid in the fluid, more fluid goes on top of 
the neg and finally a Mylar sheet is laid on top and the air bubbles 
are pushed out.

The advantages are a better scan by removing the two film-to-air 
interfaces in the optical path. Scratches and dust are also reduced.

The manufacturer's website is:

http://www.kami-produkte.de/english/

They also sell tapes and cleaning materials to use in this 
application.

In the US a nation wide distributor is Prime Source, which has 
outlets in most major cities. Their website is as 
http://207.153.212.74/

There was a long thread on this a couple of months ago on the Piezo 
list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/piezography3000

Now I have not actually tried this with my Linoscan 1400 but it is on 
my list of things to do....

If you give it a try please let us know how it works out!

Martin



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Scott Hendershot" 
<scott@p...> wrote:
> I saw a reference to Kammi fluid in one of the posts on this list. 
Can

> someone tell me what Kammi fluid is?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scott