Re: The Great Scanner debate - round one

Jon:
        Dependent upon where you live, here is a site for the Aztek scanner
folks who believe their flatbed scanner is, simply, the best. And, it
may well be. You can also purchase the Kami fluid where you noted and
at a place in FL.
        You could just call them and I believe you'll get the info you wish.
        I have not actually done this but hope to 1/2-way soon. As I see it,
you take a sheet of high quality glass (you can purchase glass does not
have that green in it) and tape that or a piece of Mylar to your
flatbed platen. The platen should be glass, not plastic. Then put some
Kami fluid down (believe it or not, you could initially try this with a
slide or neg you do not care for and use lighter fluid .. of course,
one must be careful with flammable liquids), place your slide/neg in
that and sandwich with another piece of the same material.
        Hope this brings you a bit closer to realization. My understanding is
that one will notice a obvious improvement in quality working this way
w/a quality scanner such as the 3200 or 4870. The ideas behind all this
is to take a pretty good piece of equipment and improve it slightly. It
will not rival a very good scan but, gee, it does quite nicely thanks
very much.
        Jack Fulton

        
> Thanks Jack. So maybe I use 2 pieces of 1/16" plate glass to mount the
> film instead of putting it directly on the scanner bed within the Kami
> fluid. This sounds good. I didn't understand your last statement,
> however. *What* would you seal with silicone? The edge around the
> scanner bed where the plastic meets the glass? Please clarify.
>
> BTW, I found Kami in smaller quantities here:
> http://www.baypressservices.com/shop/index.html?
> target=p_2.html&lang=en-us
>
> Love that Google! http://froogle.com can sometimes turn up good deals
> too.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Jack Fulton wrote:
>
>> One can purchase Kami fr the maker in LA but you need to purchase a
>> gallon and then there is the hazardous chemical shipping charge. I
>> believe one can go to a local digital photo place and most likely buy
>> about 16 fluid ounces from them. You can mount your neg/slide between
>> two sheets of thin glass and you are okay. There is info out there on
>> the web which is most likely possible to Google. It does not seem to
>> be
>> a worry about the fluid sneaking around the edge of the platen glass.
>> Yet, I would try to seal that (myself) w/perhaps a very thing bead of
>> transparent silicone caulk and allow that to dry for a few days before
>> scanning again.
>> Jack Fulton
>>
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Jon Lybrook wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
>> John Adams
>>
>
>
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Received on Sun Mar 21 17:08:12 2004