RE: The Great Scanner debate - round one

Thanks Don. So you think I needn't worry about sandwiching the
transparency between 2 pieces of glass when using the Kami fluid?

Jon

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Don Bryant wrote:

> 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
> > >
>
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Received on Sun Mar 21 16:06:32 2004