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SA 21 film strip transport does a credible job with flatness except at
ends of strips, where it's rarely acceptable.
Sometimes the best frame is at the end of a strip, therefore doomed to
unsharpness issues: bad luck or bad decision.
This problem differs with film stocks..is particularly bad with Fuji
color negs.
Curly Fuji seems not to be flattened with weight (eg not by pressing in
a book) or counter-curling (eg wound backward around a film cannister
for several days).
....Do you flatten color negatives successfully? How ? (heat? what temp
is safe?)
....Has anybody explored SA 21 modifications ?
....Would the FH 3 serve? I've read that it's useless. Would it be a
good candidate for machine shop modification?
IDEA: re-usable metal "slide mount" that would allow the strip film
to be used in Nikon's MA 20 slide holder. I've tested this with
butchered Plastimount...the idea might work.
A cut-down Omega aircraft aluminum negative carrier might do the trick,
but it'd want some kind of mini-latch mechanism (I don't like inserting
tape into the mechanism).
Would a MAGNETIZED (self-latching) 5cmX5cm (slide mount size) steel
negative carrier be a mechanical or electronic problem?
ends of strips, where it's rarely acceptable.
Sometimes the best frame is at the end of a strip, therefore doomed to
unsharpness issues: bad luck or bad decision.
This problem differs with film stocks..is particularly bad with Fuji
color negs.
Curly Fuji seems not to be flattened with weight (eg not by pressing in
a book) or counter-curling (eg wound backward around a film cannister
for several days).
....Do you flatten color negatives successfully? How ? (heat? what temp
is safe?)
....Has anybody explored SA 21 modifications ?
....Would the FH 3 serve? I've read that it's useless. Would it be a
good candidate for machine shop modification?
IDEA: re-usable metal "slide mount" that would allow the strip film
to be used in Nikon's MA 20 slide holder. I've tested this with
butchered Plastimount...the idea might work.
A cut-down Omega aircraft aluminum negative carrier might do the trick,
but it'd want some kind of mini-latch mechanism (I don't like inserting
tape into the mechanism).
Would a MAGNETIZED (self-latching) 5cmX5cm (slide mount size) steel
negative carrier be a mechanical or electronic problem?