RE: The Great Scanner debate - round one

Jon,

I know some folks have used mylar over the film. Let me find a link that
explains the technique and I'll post it.

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Lybrook [mailto:jon@terabear.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 5:06 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: 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
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
Received on Sun Mar 21 19:12:19 2004