ScanScience is the by product of a serendipitous combination of  many years of research involving organic fluids,
    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                  
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • University of Notre Dame -Center for  Creative
    Computing
  • University of California  Department of Art
  • George Mason University -Center for Social Science
    Research
  • Owens Community College - Fine Arts Dept.
  • Ohio University - Chillicotte Campus
  • Rhode Island School of Design
  • Metropolitan Museum,  NY
  • Princeton University
  • Nanyang Technological University, School of Art and
    Design, Hong Kong
  • University of Winsconsin
  • New York Times
  • ....And many others
                                    From the USA

    Re: Wet mount with film scanners?
    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.

    Xavier Nuez Contemporary Photography
    http://www.nuez.com

    From Italy:

    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!),

    Fernando Carulli
    fcarello@tiscali.it
    (Italy)
    Go To Forum :

    http:
    //techgroupsyahoocom/group/WETMOUNTING/message/759

    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.

    Hi everyone,
    .........  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.
         ..........................................................
    Ed
    edwood44@hotmail.com
       Posted on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/WETMOUNTING/message/792

    From: Ellis Vener
    Subject: Response to ScanScience wet Mounting Pro Kit (V750) Revisited!
    Date: 2006-10-08

    The Lumina fluid is better than the KAMI fluid and the Scan Science approach glass above the film
    results in better  quality scans than with the Epson tray.
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                                  From Iceland:
Hi Dan:

    First I would like to say how very pleased I am with your
    product. It has 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
    "FYI: Almost all of the images in my Latest and Portfolio
    categories are wet scanned using your supplies and
    materials and the results are fantastic! Thank you."
    www.jecxz.com.
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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.