Re: The Great Scanner debate - round one

From: Jon Lybrook ^lt;jon@terabear.com>
Date: 03/21/04-01:41:59 PM Z
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403211239510.21634-100000@terabear.com>

Interesting! Does anyone here recommend that? I'm interested in trying
it but wouldn't want to mess up the scanner bed glass using something that
was designed for another purpose....

Jon

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Loris Medici wrote:

> Apart Sandy's neat suggestion... I've read some people
> are wet mounting their negative onto scanner glass
> (using special fluids designed for drum scanners - I
> remember them mentioning "Kami mounting fluid" ->
> http://www.kami-produkte.de/english/sxl.html). They
> say this way they can get rid of Newton rings, keep
> the negative flat and most importantly have better
> scans (due to mounting fluid somehow increasing
> sharpness/contrast).
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
> --- Carl Weese <cweese@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > No, the 4870 is 6x9 and handles 5x7 negs easily.
> > That is, if you can figure
> > out a way to hold the negs flat and at the same time
> > avoid Newton
> > rings.---Carl
>
Received on Sun Mar 21 13:42:14 2004

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