Digital BW, The Print

On 07/23/2012 11:07 PM, togeorge626 wrote:
> I have begun to scan in B&W negatives from my darkroom past. I use a
> Nikon 9000ED and VuScan for this. The problem is that when I scan
> certain favorite negatives that include images of the sun, the
> over-exposed sun images and immediate surround are totally impenetrable
> to the scanner, even with two or three passes. These same images printed
> very well through an optical enlarger along with the expected heavy
> burning of the sun image area, which was able to show a density curve
> even within the darkest area.
>
> I could accept defeat and scan an optical print of these negatives
> (sigh). However I wonder if: a) I could adjust the 9000 in some way to
> make it scan through the spot, or b) if an expensive drum scan would do
> the job?

The desktop scanners use a longer exposure per sample for tasks like 
that, sometimes that is called analogue gain which is not what they 
actually do. Check your Vuescan manual for longer exposure and the 
combination of a long exposure scan + a normal scan. Can not recall the 
right Vuescan terms for them.


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