Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to all for responding to my film/dev post - I will have to 
spend a little time digesting all the indications given.

Meanwhile, I suspect that the scanner (Sprintscan 120) may possibly 
have a defective focus mechanism ? Not sure but it's a possibility, 
especially since it's a rental unit and I dont know who may have 
rented it and bumped it out of allignment or whatever?

Othr than having the same neg scanned on another machine, is there 
any way to verify that the focus is working correctly ?

Frank











--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Alan Zinn <AZinn@n...> 
wrote:
> 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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