[filmscanners] Re: Better DOF than Nikon?

["Michael Creem" <mcreem@worldnet.att.net>]

Another solution might be to use Wess plastic mounts. They have a version
that has pegs in the mount that match the sprocket holes in 35mm film and
they hold the film very flat without having to deal with glass. They come in
a version that shows the full 35mm frame. I think that Wess has been sold
but I think that someone else is making the mounts. They are very good.
Michael Creem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>
To: <mcreem@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:07 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Better DOF than Nikon?


> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>
>            Been thinking of your warped slides.
>
>            If you got some slide mounts with glass, but instead
> of mounting
> them normally with the slide film between the two pieces of
> glass, you mount
> them with both the glasses on the "outer" side of the warped film.
>
>           This way the glass would flatten the negative to
> perhaps where the
> DOF of the scanner is sufficient.
>
>           I don't have any of the mounts around to try it.   I do
> not know if
> you would get too many Newton rings etc.     Diffraction?.
>
>           Might be worth a try.

Actually, I did that a couple days ago. I took one of my anti-Newton glass
mounts, and yanked out the glass on the emulsion side. It worked fairly
well, although I have some slides that, as a result of a fire, have such
horrible ripples in them that they won't even lie flat when sandwiched
between two pieces of glass.

Besides, it's such a pain to do that, that I'd gladly buy a different
scanner if it would solve the problem.

Anyway, thanks for the input.

--

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

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