wet mounting fluids

[Ian David]

Hi Alex
If you want to have a play around with some of the Lumina wet-mounting fluid mentioned above, I can bring a bottle next time we catch up for a beer. I have a few bottles that I suspect I may never get through. I also have some mylar strips etc too.
Ian

[MisterPrinter]

Hi Alex
If you want to have a play around with some of the Lumina wet-mounting fluid mentioned above, I can bring a bottle next time we catch up for a beer. I have a few bottles that I suspect I may never get through. I also have some mylar strips etc too.
Ian

What is the evaporation rate like with Lumina ? I use Kami, but I'm finding it evaporates so fast that I struggle to get a few negatives mounted together. By the time the scanner gets to the last ones they are dry, even though I try to seal every gap with Kami tape.

[welly]

Thanks for the advice people

I will give lighter fluid a fly (I have some handy) if the results are good then I will buy some Kami fluid. I think wet mounting is the only real option for me as my scanner does not have holders for 120 roll film longer than 6x9, and no after market company makes holders for it any more.. I only have the glass bed that is usually used for 8x10's. I figure I can probably wet mount 3 or 4 6x17 slides in that area easily enough. I have just taped slides to the glass however newton rings become annoying. In some images they are really bad where as in others you hardly see them at all. Usually images with big bright skies and lots of bright areas get rings badly, whilst images from inside dense rainforests do not seem to suffer. Wet mounting should remove the issue all together.

If you order some, give me a shout as I'd like some too and we could possibly save a few bob on shipping costs, assuming you're ordering from the US?

[Tony Evans]

What is the evaporation rate like with Lumina ? I use Kami, but I'm finding it evaporates so fast that I struggle to get a few negatives mounted together. By the time the scanner gets to the last ones they are dry, even though I try to seal every gap with Kami tape.

Lumina is slower to evaporate, but it dries clean. I hang negs up to dry after use.

[Ian David]

What is the evaporation rate like with Lumina ? I use Kami, but I'm finding it evaporates so fast that I struggle to get a few negatives mounted together. By the time the scanner gets to the last ones they are dry, even though I try to seal every gap with Kami tape.

I have never used Kami, but as Tony Evans has said, the Lumina seems to evaporate pretty slowly. I haven't used it for a while, but I never had a problem with the evaporation rate.