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Re: BW Films & Scanning

2002-05-16 by Jon Zax

I recently scanned a large project for a photographer who shot on the 
chromagenic B&W film, Kodak's,
if I recall, and it was very good and easy to scan, granted I use a drum 
scanner,

 From the days when I had a wet darkroom, my favorite combo was Plus-X 
souped in FG7 with the 11%
sodium sulfite added.
These old negs scan very nicely with tight clean grain, long tonalities 
and not too high a D-max, which is
the main problem with lots of silver film when it comes to scanning.

J.Z.

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