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plastics and solvents and a love of photography . During my career, I had technical affiliations with The American Chemical Society (ACS), The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM), the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), the Society of Plastics Engineers, and The Canadian Society of Spectroscopy. I hold several US and Canadian patents involving products that use organic fluids. Prior to retiring I was also a chemical consultant for Major European and US Firms on products based on organic fluids. LUMINA Optical Super Fluid represents a major, innovative contribution to the art, a Scanning Fluid unlike any other ever offered. ScanScience’s recent origins belie an operation with unique technical capabilities and expertise in critical areas of interest to our customers. We are located in Ontario, Canada near Toronto. You can buy with the confidence that your orders will be dealt with responsibly and honestly and that we will be there to help, when you need advice after the purchase. Technical support is part of the product. Sincerely: Dan Max |
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I purchased the wetmounting kit from ScanScience and there's no turning back - its better than the more expensive competition. I have the Nikon 9000ED and my scans have improved enormously with the kit. Plus Julio, ensures great service.
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The ScanScience kit: works very well. Lumina is handy for its spot-on evaporating rate (not so fast that it dries up during long scans, not so slow that takes forever to clean), nearly-absent smell, no residues, high flash point. The cleaner does its job nicely (Lumina doesn't leave halos so the cleaner doesn't need to work that hard!), |
From: Christopher Campbell Subject: Response to Nikon Coolscan 5000: Gepe 7012, focus, wet-mounting Date: 2005-10-18 I posted this, and more, last night on robgalbraith.com: http://forums.robgalbraith.com/showflat.php? Cat=0&Number=364754&an=0&page=0&gonew=1#UNREAD but thought that I should cross-post it here for completeness. As for miniature fluid mounts for 35 mm transparencies, I tried out my supplies from ScanScience this weekend on the Nikon Coolscan 5000. The ScanScience materials seem to be of very high quality, both the Lumina mounting fluid and the anti-static 4-mil polyester overlay sheets. |
......... I hooked up with ScanScience and their amazing Wet Mounting System. The results have been astounding with this setup. In this time frame, between working 50 hours a week and family duties, I have wet scanned 112 Provia 100 4x5 chromes. ........................................................................................................................... ....I only want to tell all those who believe in Wet Mounting that this is the best scanning operation next to drum scanning. I have had 2 drum scanning experts look at several of these wet mounted scans. They could not believe they were not done on this scanner.
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| Just In: From Iceland: Hi Dan:
worked out just brilliantly for me. I find it to be much easier then I had anticipated and I can't imagine doing this any other way. I think the quality I am getting from my Mamiya 7 (MF format 6*7) scanned on the Nikon 9000 is just great and it makes me wonder if I will ever go digital. |
| From the USA "I have converted entirely to the ScanScience way and abandoned my makeshift oil methods. ..I never make dry film scans anymore, it throws away too much quality....Everyone out there who is serious about getting the best possible scans needs to be doing wet scanning and ScanScience makes it affordable on almost any scanner. " CTEIN, PHOTO TECHNIQUES NOV / DEC 2009 |
wet scanned using your supplies and materials and the results are fantastic! Thank you." www.jecxz.com. |
| Stockphoto Forum http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php? threadid=64557&messageid=964603&source=rssforums#post964603 Umax Poowerlock 3000, Film Fuji Pro 160S image (from a 645 neg) at 3000dpi. Using a ScanScience film holder and fluid mounting kit . Fluid holds the film perfectly flat. I tend to mention them (ScanScience) a lot because the kit really has made a difference in the quality of my scans. I don't really like using fluid, because it takes more time, but I haven't been able to match the results any other way. Besides keeping the film flat, the kit can adjust the height of the film on a flatbed to the ideal focal distance for that scanner. |
| From: "Ed Gurrie" <edwood44@hotmail.com> Date: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:47 pm Subject: RE: [SCANMAX - Fluid / Wet Mounting Techniques I use the liquid mounting system developed by ScanScience and have scanned over 100 4x5 chromes (provia 100) at the full optical res on the microtek 1000xl pro (3200 dpi). using scratch removal and multi sampling at 4 to 8x, the digital master file is close to 1 gigabyte !!!!!. the resulting print size at 300 dpi is ~42" x 54". The difference between liquid mounting and without it is truly amazing. this liquid mounting system has been so well designed by Dan that when i compared a couple of these large files to a drum scan that 2 experts could not tell the difference. I spend a lot of time coming to use this system due to all the "work" involved. now i can prep and scan this big file within 40 minutes. Thanks Dan for all your hard work. |
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