Fascinating videos! Thank you for posting. One question, though: The wet gate scan seems quite a bit softer. Was noise reduction applied to one and not the other? Or does scanning wet just reduce fine detail?
The fine detail of scratches, dirt and film grain of an active film image confers the impression that the image you see of a dry scan is sharper. That is an illusion. After the wetgate scan, what you see is the real detail of the image in motion.
@@d0r4em0n Perchloroethylene. But there are others. Even isopropyl alcohol can work if you have your own telecine machine. Just make a cotton pinch around the film before it enters the gate and keep adding liquid as it scans. Even better use filmguard. You could do this yourself with a crappy wolverine telecine machine. But don't go buying Perchloroethylene you will likely get cancer as you will have to touch the stuff with this method.
Fascinating videos! Thank you for posting.
One question, though: The wet gate scan seems quite a bit softer. Was noise reduction applied to one and not the other? Or does scanning wet just reduce fine detail?
my question too
Sharp eye! I was so impressed with the scratches disappearing, that aspect slipped past me.
The fine detail of scratches, dirt and film grain of an active film image confers the impression that the image you see of a dry scan is sharper. That is an illusion. After the wetgate scan, what you see is the real detail of the image in motion.
How is the film dried?
It has a dryer on the installed head as the last area before it leaves
Fantastic!
The WetGate technology is definitely better. I have been using it for film scans for decades, as has every drum scanner.
What fluids are used for wet gate?
@@d0r4em0n Perchloroethylene. But there are others. Even isopropyl alcohol can work if you have your own telecine machine. Just make a cotton pinch around the film before it enters the gate and keep adding liquid as it scans. Even better use filmguard. You could do this yourself with a crappy wolverine telecine machine. But don't go buying Perchloroethylene you will likely get cancer as you will have to touch the stuff with this method.
@@d0r4em0n en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-transfer_film_gate
the fluid that is used on a Wetgate is dry cleaning fluid. no way i would use that on any film.
I thought it is perchlor
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