Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Marco 
Fogarolo" <fogmarco@t...> wrote:
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> I 'm trying to scan the Portra 400 BW film with a Nikon coolscan 
IV.
> My problem is that I always have a file without a complete 
histogram. The black point is always about 80% of the full range.
 
Hello Marco;

I've found the best way to scan a negative film with the Nikon 
software is to scan it as a positive, in greyscale in this case. You 
will find that the histo data has lots of space on each side, 
nothing clipped. Set the black & white point sliders very close but 
not on the B&W points, and do the rest, including inversion in 16-
bit in Photoshop.

Steve K.
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