Film Carriers

The DT Basic 35mm and 120 Strip Film Carrier, and the DT Basic 4×5 Sheet Film Carrier consists of a durable, ultra-flat machined metal base with a flexible magnetic cover, allowing the user to hold film planar without glass. With minimum contact around the edges for safe handling of even the most fragile material, the film carrier allows capture of the entire frame without obstruction and provides built-in flare protection. 

In order to ensure the maximum life span of the magnetic masks for 35mm, 120, and 4x5 carriers, proper handling of the masks while loading the films is necessary.

While keeping the masks at a 90-degree angle to the aluminum holder, adjust the film strip’s alignment as the masks are slowly rolled down to make sure that the film strip is being loaded parallel to the edge of the opening.

The DT Advanced Slide Film Carrier enables precise positioning for up to 6 slides at a time for high magnification digitization. Machined to be durable and ultra-flat, the Slide Film Carrier ensures perfect planarity and repeatability, with minimum contact around the edges of the slide mount for the safe handling of even the most fragile materials. The Slide Film Carrier also features detents for easy frame-to-frame registration when using the DT Film Scanning Kit Base.

Slides should be inserted underneath the spring clips. The spring clips can be removed using a #1 Phillips screwdriver, if the mounting of the slide is too thick, or if the spring clips obscure relevant information.

The DT ANR Glass Film Carrier is the culmination of years of research into different glasses, coatings, and machining methods designed to eliminate Newton Rings when digitizing film under glass. With the advanced, ultra-fine glass coating formulation used, image sharpness and grain rendition are far superior to legacy scanner glass or drums at high PPI, and the need for wet-mounting is eliminated (though wet mounting is possible if desired). With a durable frame custom machined from aerospace-grade aluminum, the glass carrier allows for precise, repeatable digitization of sheet or strip film of any size up to 8×10.