Digital BW, The Print

At 07:31 PM 8/5/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Frank,
>
>as to developers, try a roll or two in Rodinal, it will be anything 
>but mushy unless your scanner doesn't focus well... and if that's the 
>case the high accutance of this developer will help. It's available 
>here in 125ml bottles (I don't know about stateside), and is 
>inexpensive, so you won't be out much.
>
>I'm afraid that I forgot the format you're working, Julian's comments 
>about AN glass could work two ways, if you're using a flatbed, put 
>the film emulsion side down and cover with a piece of AN glass, if 
>you're working with 35mm in a dedicated film scanner, mount the 
>frames in AN glass slide mounts.
>
>>  I don't mind grain per se and I've used this film/dev for a long 
>> while with good result- now I guess I'm wanting it to serve me in the 
>> digital as well as silver worlds :-) 
>> 
>> But it seems the grain is mushy not sharp/crisp. So maybe a silver 
>> solvent dev likeD76 is the wrong way to go ?
>
>
>-- 
>Tim Spragens
>
>http://www.borderless-photos.de
>http://www.borderless-photos.com
>

Frank,

Grain is too fine for the scanner to reproduce as "natural" grain so
whatever developer you use may not make a diference. The scanner software
creates a grain-like texture that can range from soft to coarse. That is not
to say that you will not see a difference among developers. I would
experiment with the scanner settings and PS before switching to a new
developer. You want to get good at scanning your existing HC110 negs no?

AZ

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