RE: The Great Scanner debate - round one

The Kami fluid will work fine on flatbed scanners.

Don Bryant

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Lybrook [mailto:jon@terabear.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 2:42 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: The Great Scanner debate - round one
>
> 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 14:59:07 2004