Digital BW, The Print

Paul,
Curious about the clipping of highlights you mention. Am I understanding you
correctly that a raw scan set for neg/mono and grayscale will have less
highlight info visible than one set for positive and grayscale, then
inverted in Photoshop? So apparently you're not unchecking "auto exposure
for negative film" box in scan prefs (which would eliminate any AE
problems)...but are you disabling AE for positive film? Are you using any
gamma adjustments in the scan software? Will do some experimenting on my
4000, but interested to know what you are and aren't doing for comparison.

Also, in response to the original question--just select "reset to factory
defaults" under crop. That will automatically set you up for max res and
image size possible.

Doug


> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:51:42 -0700
> From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
> Subject: RE: Scanning B&W 35MM Negatives using Nikon Super CoolScan 4000
> 
> With the Nikon 8000, the basic things I do is tell the scanner the negative
> is a positive (slide) grayscale (otherwise the AE clips the highlights, and
> the other tools are a nuisance to use),  use the driver histogram to set the
> white and black points, and scan (& work) at full optical 4000 dpi and 14
> bit depth.  That's about all it takes to get a great scan.
> 
> Paul