[filmscanners] RE: Drum scan oil

["Jack Phipps" <JPhipps@asf.com>]

Yup. I mainly use it in the darkroom (which doesn't happen much anymore). It
is hard to use on the drum scanner because it evaporates so quickly, but I
do use it there too. I'd like to try it on the glass holder of the Nikon
8000... but I haven't built a jig to hold the negatives so it doesn't spill
inside the scanner. The other problem is that it is more flammable than some
of the fluids designed for oil immersion.


Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. DeRocco [mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:15 PM
To: Jack Phipps
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Drum scan oil

In other words, you actually use the Ace mineral oil to do the scanning, not
just to clean up some other kind of oil used for scanning? And afterwards,
it just evaporates, leaving a clean slide?

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: Jack Phipps
>
> For oil scanning or cleaning up images after someone else has
> used some kind
> of oil that leaves a residue, I use paint thinner, 100% mineral
> oil. The can
> I'm looking at now happens to be from Ace Hardware and has their private
> label.
>
> I have used it on countless transparencies and negatives and it
> works quite
> well. The advantage to using it when you scan is that all you
> have to do is
> let it air dry.

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