Digital BW, The Print

Bill,

I use the Nikon 8000 for my medium format black&white negs. I doubt if
there's a carrier available that will work for 4-up strips. The end of the
filmstrip sticks up and jams as the holder feeds into the scanner. I've
gotten the holder jammed inside the scanner a couple of times and had to
take the cover off and wiggle it loose. Unnerving.

Scanning B&W negs requires a workaround to avoid shadow and highlight
clipping. Turn off all color management in the NikonScan prefs and scan the
neg as a positive to avoid the clipping. Invert the neg in the LCH editor
(using just the luminosity curve). Click the histogram icon in the curve
editor and then use the analog gain to center the resulting histogram. Once
all that's done, use the curve editor to adjust the tonal range of the
image; scan in 14-bit and you're done.

If that's a little too abbreviated, let me know and I'll send you a couple
of screen shots off-list.

Peter Lindman



on 7/12/02 5:46 AM, Bill Morse at willym@... wrote:

> (Cross-posted to Hi-End Scanners list)
> 
> I am working on a project for a client who has bought a Nikon 8000- Several
> hundred 6x6 negs in strips of 4.
> 
> The first problem is that the 4  neg strips won¹t fit in the supplied
> carriers- is there another carrier that would work?
> 
> Second, can anyone suggest a workflow for producing 16 bit scans @ 4000
> dpi?- which settings to turn off or on, etc.?  Am I correct that there is no
> provision for applying an input or output profile?
> 
> What potential problems with the scanner should I look for?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> Bill Morse
> PhotoProspect
> Cambridge, MA 02139