Digital BW, The Print

Here's a little trick to make a contact sheet I learned from a 
popular photo web site. Scans your negatives with or without the 
PrintFile plastic page on a regular flatbed scanner without 
transparency adapter.

In Photoshop go to Levels and take the middle (gamma) slider all the 
way to the right. Then print. It will look even better printed. Then 
you can also double the size of your contact sheet image and print. 
(Of course, only half of the negatives will then fit on an 8.5 x 11 
sheet of paper).
Cheers,
Andre


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bob_michaels" 
<bob@b...> wrote:
> I currently have a good film scanner but not a flatbed. I'm
> considering buying a 1200 dpi flatbed to make contact sheets of 35mm
> b&w negs. My thinking is that since I'm not resizing the scan and 
1200
> dpi is already greater than the Epson driver native resolution,
> nothing would be gained by a higher rez scanner. I'll just invert 
the
> scan in Photoshop and output to my 1280 or 890. 
> 
> Could I expect to get any useful detail in a contact sheet just by
> ordinary frontlighting the negs in a cheap flatbed?
> 
> Any other suggestions for bridging this weak link in my process?
> 
> Bob Michaels