Digital BW, The Print

Kevin

The point being that you are being presented a "better" image due to 
post-scan manipulation in software as against "extracting" more or 
better information from the film. For example, I dont wont to be lead 
to believe that I have captured more detail in the highlights or 
shadows merely because some levels adjustment has been pre-applied. 
If and when I want to adjust a scanned image I like to have this 
control of the workflow myself in PS. The real issues for scanners 
are techniques and tweaks to extract real additional information.

regards
Craig

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Gulstene 
<kevin@d...> wrote:
> OK that's kind of funny.
> 
> <snip>
> >  many assume that if the output from it looks better, both
> > visually and via histograms, then it must be a better scan ...
> <snip>
> 
> Umm, yes.  How else would you evaluate the scan.  If it looks 
better 
> visually, and the histogram tells you it has not clipped tones at 
> either end and not introduced gaps what else would you be looking 
for?
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin Gulstene