Digital BW, The Print

Martin Wesley writes:   

"Out of curiosity did Microtek come up with better film holders than the ones
Polaroid shipped? I liked my SS120 but the 120 holder was too narrow and cut
off about 1.5mm of image on both sides and I had to wait for the glass
holder to get full frame. With the firmware upgrades you described it sounds
like the better way to go."

Yes, Microtek did widen the 120 carrier noticeably.   You still lose some 
image to the carrier, but not as much as with the Polaroid's.   The trade-off is 
that the top carrier bracket, being thinner, feels more fragile and bendy.   I 
bought a glass carrier for the Microtek but returned it.   I wanted it for 
scanning negatives from edge to edge, but even with the glass carrier the 
scanner will not scan beyond the image into the film edges where frame numbers and 
film type are printed.   Whether this is a hardware or a software limitation, I 
do not know.   But the new stock carriers get close enough to the frame edge 
without resorting to the glass carrier -- close enough for me, at least.

Sanders McNew.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sandersm@... [mailto:sandersm@...]
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:00 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 1712
>
>
> Martin Wesley writes:
>
(snip earlier)
>
> Yes, Microtek did widen the 120 carrier noticeably.   You still lose some
> image to the carrier, but not as much as with the Polaroid's.
> The trade-off is
> that the top carrier bracket, being thinner, feels more fragile
> and bendy.   I
> bought a glass carrier for the Microtek but returned it.   I
> wanted it for
> scanning negatives from edge to edge, but even with the glass carrier the
> scanner will not scan beyond the image into the film edges where
> frame numbers and
> film type are printed.   Whether this is a hardware or a software
> limitation, I
> do not know.   But the new stock carriers get close enough to the
> frame edge
> without resorting to the glass carrier -- close enough for me, at least.
>
Sanders,

Well it is good to know they worked on the carrier design. With the Polaroid
glass carrier I could get all of the image area of the negatives from my
Pentax 67 but just barely. Maybe they are limited by the width of the CCD
array.

Martin Wesley
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