Digital BW, The Print

I agree with Walker about the positive scanning of negatives - it helps eliminate the scanner manufacturer's algorithm for converting a neg to a positive. I find this the best way to get out of the film what is there, without the scanner software imposing its own idea of what is there.

I'll add a penny to his two cents...

I usually set the white point on the film base + fog, and I set the black point on fully exposed film (leader for example). This way everything that has been exposed will exist within the dMin/dMax possibilities of the film.


Jon Cone
Piezography

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Walker Blackwell <forums@...> wrote:
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> For BW, I often do raw (positive) drumscans of BW negs and inverted them in ACR. Then I import into Lightroom and do most of my global adjustments in there. I like it because it's non-destructive and faaast! (+ there is no duplicates. Just the raw scan files with non-destructive crop.)
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> + It gives me a more darkroom-esque workflow and I take save all my adjustments as templates, etc. For straight photography, it works really well for me.
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> Just my two cents,
> Walker
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