Digital BW, The Print

I am sure that others have thought of this, but I just put a sheet of 
Portra negs on top of a light box and shot it with a digital camera 
(Canon G2 in raw mode).  After some fiddling with the light balance 
and exposure compensation, I got a reasonable shot which I inverted 
in PS and after some more fiddling and quick local contrast 
adjustments and a bit of burning got a contact print that is good 
enough to let me see what is on the roll.  It beats anything I have 
been able to get from a flatbed scanner without a negative 
attachment.  After I got the fiddles right, the whole thing took ten 
minutes.

Steve