Comparison video of dft's WetGate™ technology

[@Md2802]

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?

[@stephenperera1966]

my question too

[@BigJwlz]

Sharp eye! I was so impressed with the scratches disappearing, that aspect slipped past me.

[@DARANGULAFILM]

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.

[@rickhalverson2014]

The WetGate technology is definitely better. I have been using it for film scans for decades, as has every drum scanner.

[@d0r4em0n]

What fluids are used for wet gate?

[@Nick_Lavigne]

@@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.

[@ayatotakema5axs]

@@d0r4em0n en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-transfer_film_gate

[@dawsonboyle99]

Fantastic!

[@meowchin]

How is the film dried?

[@Nick_Lavigne]

It has a dryer on the installed head as the last area before it leaves

[@speakeasyarchives8764]

the fluid that is used on a Wetgate is dry cleaning fluid. no way i would use that on any film.

[@dubakak]

I thought it is perchlor

[@ytsucksnowwiththisrealname1096]

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