FLUID SCAN YOUR  FILM SCANNER
TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL
With the ScanScience system you  prepare the fluid
mount and place it on the holder provided with the
scanner, then tape the ends. You do not need a glass holder
only the holder that comes with the scanner saving you hundreds of
dollars in glass holders and special wet mount holders.  You just
remove the cover in the regular holder and you are ready to start
fluid scanning.


    Film Scanners allow  light to go through the film directly to the
    lens and the sensors without suffering degradation from image
    refracting glass.

    This inherent advantage of the film scanner is lost by film
    curvature which causes uneven focus.  Also,  light scattering at
    the grain loss of sharpness and colour saturation result from
    dry scanning.

    To counter film curvature, glass carriers were proposed as a
    solution, but Newton rings made the 'solution' unworkable.  Anti-
    Newton glass was then proposed but that came with some
    loss in image quality because  anti newton (AN) glass is not
    perfectly clear glass nor is it a cure for problems inherent in dry
    scanning such as light scattering.    
    The ScanScience system addresses these issues by
    achieving film flatness by fluid mounting the film to scanning
    glass in a non-refractive position.  With the ScanScience
    system the troublesome issues of film curvature and Newton
    rings are banned and replaced by a superior optical system in
    which film is perfectly flat and  yields the brilliance associated
    with fluid scanning.   
    The ScanScience fluid scan is more brilliant and has  a
    smoother tonal range, higher color saturation, greater dynamic
    range, and dMax.  As an added benefit you get also dust and
    scratch healing which does not degrade the image or slow
    down the scan, as digital dust and scratch procedures do. On  
    a Nikon Coolscan 9000 a high resolution scan with ICE set to
    standard took 6.75 minutes. A fluid scan without ICE and the
    same settings took only 4 minutes. The fluid mount can be
    assembled in under 2 minutes.  
ScanScience
OPTICALLY SUPERIOR  COMPETITIVELY PRICED
FILM SCANNERS
    ScanScience
    Our kits for the NIKON Scanners are
    the most sought after enhancement
    to  these great machines.

    Experienced users say: once you
    see the brilliance of a fluid scan you
    never go back to dry scanning.
            ScanScience
    Powers these Film Scanners:
     Nikon 9000 & 8000
  • Nikon 35 mm scanners
  • Microtek 120tf,
  • Polaroid Scanners
  • Minolta Scanners
What Customers are saying about ScanScience:


This email from the UK

                  --- In coolscan8000-9000@yahoogroups.com, "acrailmc"
    <acrailmc@...> wrote:
    >
    > Chuck: I recently bought the ScanScience kit for my CS
    9000 and it > works as well or even better than their own
    blurb.  I have no shares > in this business but can say that
    the last hurdle to well-nigh > perfect pictures (especially
    B/W) has been removed for me. Grain is appreciably
    smoother and as the film lies perfectly flat there are  no
    focussing problems. Big enlargements are now purely a
    matter of  sharpness of the original. An unexpected bonus
    is that with B/W negs the wetmounting fluid supplied by
    Scanscience seems to be as effective as Nikon's Digital
    ICE is with colour. With colour emulsions sharpness is
    improved as I no longer have to use ICE.

    > Hope this helps, Charlie Lewis
    And This comment.....

    Only a few words to say that I
    made the mounting and scanned
    my first b/w negatives without
    problems ( I got some bubbles at
    the first mounts but with some
    practice it's not difficult to avoid
    them ) .

    Congratulations for this
    product. These new scans
    are stunning; it's close to
    wearing glasses and forget to
    put them on or not .

    Best regards,
    José.
For best results from the Nikon 8000/9000 we recommend
Silverfast Ai.
For an explanation of  Wetmounting or fluid scanning click         HERE.
    The site offers several pages of examples of Fluid Scanning compered to dry scanning.
If you like to see what Kodachrome slides look like when scanned dry and fluid scanned click        HERE
If you like to see what negative film scanned dry compares to negative film scanned wet click         HERE
If you like to see what black and white film scanned dry and wet click         HERE and HERE.
    Fluid scannign uses fluid.  You will also see in this page a comparison with another commercial fluid in tests that you
    can do yourself.  
To learn about the fluid LUMINA click         HERE

If you want to see special features of the ScanScience kits for the Epson V750/700 click        HERE
For special fetarues of the ScanScience kits for the Nikon scanners and Film Scanners  click            HERE
To know who we are click        HERE
To contact us click         HERE
To get the catalog and price list click         HERE   
To Log onto PayPal  as a ScanSciecence customer and place an order click                             
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