RE: Sorry to ask again but...
Title: RE: Sorry to ask again but...
Don,
Yes, I would be interested. Thanks for doing this.
Sandy
Sandy abd et al,
Large pieces of 1 mm thick Anti-Newton glass can be
purchased, at a price. If anyone is interested I'll see if I can
come up with the manufacturers/sellars URL.
Don Bryant
From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:58 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: RE: Sorry to ask again but...
My
suggestion would be to buy a piece of thin glass, about 1mm thick by
about 8X10" to fit over the glass of your holder, glue some thin
brass strips to the glass to serve as a frame for the size negative
you want to scan, and scan your negative emulsion down wet-mounted
with some type of mounting fluid. You could also use Johnson baby oil
for this, though clean-up is a little harder.
My
experience is that wet-mounting can improve significantly the quality
of your scan, by 1) reducing grain size, 2) minimizing marks from
scratches on the negative, and increasing overall sharpness. I did
this with my Epson 4870 and was really pleased with the improvement in
quality.
Sandy
Michael,
Doug is not manufacturing anything but MF holders. He
has attempted to come up with a design for LF negatives but as of yet
he has not succeeded. Per a conversation, I had with him at lunch
earlier this week the LF holder development has been placed on hold
due to the high demand for his MF holders.
No one else makes a LF holder for the 4990. It would
be nice but there are a lot of problems creating a reliable high
quality and yet comparatively inexpensive holder that meets the
needs of LF users.
I'm sure a crafty person such as yourself could make a
home made holder that would suffice for your on personal use. Coming
up with a mass marketed item is much more problematic. Doug's approach
is to manufacture and market value added products that are durable and
almost fool proof.
Don Bryant
From: Michael Koch-Schulte
[mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 4:35 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: Sorry to ask again but...
If you
scroll down the page he mentions that he's working on 4x5, 5x7 and
"odd sized" holders...whether you can get one yet is the
question.
~m
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Original Message -----
From: Don
Bryant
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Sent: Friday, August
25, 2006 6:31 PM
Subject: RE: Sorry to
ask again but...
Doug only has
MF negative holders and is only making MF holders.
From: Michael
Koch-Schulte [mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:05 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: Sorry to ask again but...
Were you thinking Doug's MF
holder. I think he's making other frame sizes no too.
~m
http://www.betterscanning.com/
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From: BOB
KISS
To: ALT PHO PROC.
Sent: Tuesday, August
22, 2006 4:09 PM
Subject: Sorry to ask
again but...
DEAR LIST,
Sorry to
bother y'all again but, try as I might, I cannot find
the e-mail from the person who makes 5X7 and 8X10 negative holders for
the
Epson 4990 scanner. Please remind me of his e-mail address so
that I can
contact him.
THANKS!
CHEERS!
BOB
Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/ <http://www.bobkiss.com/>
"Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you
are going to
live forever". Mahatma Gandhi
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