Sample Fluid Scans -Wetmounting

We show these

five sets of

Wet / Dry scan comparisons

as they widely

illustrate

the

differences between

Fluid Scanning

and

canning.

The first of these comparisons 1- B&W (1)

illustrates Fluid

Scanning's ability to scan Silver fillm and to

erease the

scratchmarks on

the film, in addition to rendering the image more uniform and grainless.

The

black and white

set B&W(2)

offers a more nuanced view of Fluid scanning and

its ability to enhance contrast, e.

seeing the film in its original form.

The set "Color Neg"

shows the greater color saturation and greater

fidelty to the original film content.

The set "Kodachrome"

illustrates the effect that dry scanning has on

Kodachrome, rendering the film

(in this case

Kodachrome 64) with

characteristic purple graininess.

Fluid scanning shows that this enhancement of the grain is an aberration of

dry scanning, which results from how the optics read dry grain.

Many users

that scanned

large collections

Kodachrome have

been put off by the unatrtactiveness of the

purple grain. Fluid Scanning

cleans up the scan of Kodachrome effectively.

The set Film Scanner Nikon 9000

illustrates

A) the greater sharpness and contrast of the Fluid Scan. The dry

scan pratically obliterates the

detail on the rigging of the

sails.

B) Again, the grater sharpness of the fluid scan is unquestionable

in the rendering of the detail in

the bushes

Dry scanning although intuitively 'natural' is anything but. The properties of light make for the dry scan to be defective, emphasizing the
grain because of the scattering of light on the dry grain and reducing contrast and saturation and dynamic range. Blocked shadow
detail and washed out highlights are typical effects of dry scanning. Evidently fluid scannign is the only method of scanning which sees
the film without the artifacts introduced by dry scanning. Fluid Scanning retains full fidelity to the original image on film.

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dry / wet scans.
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