10 Dec
2012
10 Dec
'12
7:26 p.m.
At 02:24 AM 12/10/2012, Joost van de Griek wrote:
Point is, I wet scan directly on the flatbed, no
(flimsy) film holders. Excellent results. Not drum-scanning level results, but good enough
for home scanning.
I was tinkering with wet scanning this summer. I had some 100-year-old
curled silver prints my great-grandfather had made. The dark areas of
the print had gone shiny. I wet them with isopropyl, which relaxed the
paper and darkened the blacks, then scanned. It worked well.
I saw the online explanations of wet scanning but I hadn't been sufficiently
motivated to pay for the somewhat expensive fluid in this case where I
didn't need to scan negatives. What's in the fluid?
- John