Image 2. Essential Knowledge. I have an Imacon scanner, and because of the Lumina scanning fluid, I am able to make wet scans with it.

These wet scans exceed the quality of some drum scanners. The fluid is wonderful because you don't have to clean it off. It just evaporates, so it eliminates much of the pain of wet scanning.

ScanScience worked with me personally to develop the system, and since then it's the only system I use to scan my slides and negatives.

When ScanScience developed it, they told me that the scans would now be sharper, with less grain than without the fluid, and they were absolutely right".

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You must use proper software for film scanning. We recommend Silverfast Ai Studio 8. The purpose of this section is two-fold: It acquaints you with the capacity of film as a recording medium compared to digital.

Perhaps more important to all photographers, it covers the most critical points in choosing the color space when scanning and when printing from Photoshop.

The scans shown below are unedited dry and wet scans. These scans show the difference in resolution of dry as compared to wet scanning.

Wet scanning can do this because it is an optical technique. No manipulations of any kind were applied. W hat you see is the unedited scan. As you can see, the wet scans obtained through the ScanScience wet-scan technology are far superior in resolution, sharpness, contrast , and dynamic range.

Color Think Pro is unquestionably the premier color management software. One of the of the most important decisions you are likely to make in scanning is tagging your image with a working color space.

Once you do that, the image is forever confined to the boundaries of that color space. The colors contained in the film that the working color space can't include are permanently lost clipped to the scan and can't be recovered.

Choosing, after the fact, a wider color space in Photoshop is ineffective. The loss is permanent and cannot be undone. In scanning, the objective of color management is to record, with maximum fidelity, the colors embedded on film.

If you have scanned and captured all the colors in the film faithfully, the image's richness may not be fully evident in the monitor at hand, but since printers have wider gamuts than most monitors, the printer may print most colors in the scan even though you cannot see them on the monitor.

The richness of the colors in the scan are not most because the monitor does not display them or the current printer can't print them.

They are embedded with the scan, waiting to come to life and be rescued by a better monitor or printer. Opting for fluid-scanning puts within reach the highest quality reproduction possible.

To ensure this, the path from the scan to the print must be direct as regards size and color settings, with the least amount of intervention by the photo-editor software.

Best quality requires sizing the scan for the print and tagging the optimum working color space to the image from the start. This means a color space that will not clip the colors on film nor one that will be too wide as to include artificial, mathematically created colors.

If this is done, the colors resident on the film will stand a better chance of being reproduced in print.

Although Color Science can be complicated, the working principles are not difficult and distill into relatively basic concepts.

Older color spaces and older printers were blind to a large portion of the visible spectrum including blues and greens.

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I am still working on my technique to minimize dust that has to be digitally removed later, but that will simply take practice.

Since the labs that I use charge so much for scans and these scans are worse or at best equal to what I can get from the Epson V, I think my days of having scans with my developing are over.

A note about scanning software. That supplied with the V cannot access the High Pass Optics of the scanner. That supplied with the V I purchased does but the software would not work with my latest version of Mac OS.

As a result, if you purchase either the V or V you will have to upgrade the software supplied to access these High Pass Optics.

Many thanks to John for coming back to us with another fantastic article. If you have your own experiences or tips please leave them in the comments below.

Thanks JCH. Camera hunter, photographer, camera geek, Tokyoite and Englishman all rolled into one gracefully balding package.

I have been living and working in Tokyo for 14 years now and it is my home. Tokyo is heaven for cameras and I know the secret spots and special places.

Let me be your 'camera enabler'. I considered buying an Epson Vish for a long time but decided against it. Also, it can scan an uncut roll of 35mm in batch mode.

If your exposures on a single roll are very uniform, you can have the scanner scan the whole roll in batch mode. I use Vuescan instead of the outrageously overpriced Silverfast.

This also allows me to scan raw images. Hey, I have a V, and the special wet-scanning holder. I also have a Imacon Precision 2, and a was lucky finding them.

You mention that the scanner removes film grain, which seems odd to me. In some lab scans it very well could be that the lab is using more, probably too much, sharpening.

But also there is diffraction off the grain in a dry scan depending on the film type of course this diffraction is minimized in wet scanning because of the liquid that the light must pass though.

In the colour shot, perhaps the wet scan slightly opened up the shadows a little bit more. But hardly. Very good article.

Oil mounting was standard on the Crosfield or Hell drum scanners I used to operate when I was in the print trade back in the 80s and 90s.

About 10 years ago I did my first experiments with using a digital camera as a scanner and found the results so good I abandoned flatbeds altogether.

Any scanner or clunky scanner software is just too time consuming. The technique is enhanced by using focus stacking to correct for any curvature of the film.

To my eye, I get better results with this than with my Epson V dry scans. The YouTube author then puts this self-contained wet mount into a dedicated Nikon slide scanner for digitizing.

I would love to try this wet mount with my DSLR slide digitizing routine, but am not sure how to construct the mini wet mount, in particular how to make the mount fluid-tight on three sides and how to space the two panes of glass just right.

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