Digital BW, The Print

Hal,
with a magnifier, can you see the grain in the negative ? Does it look 
as strong as what you see in the scan ?? What dpi was used for the 
scan ? You should be able to see in the neg exactly what is in the 
scan with a good loupe. 
I have some 100 year+ 4x5 glass plates from my grandfather, and they 
scan well - worthy of 16x20 printing..... I use a Polaroid 
SprintScan45 (2000dpi).

Best,
Alex

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"redwoods2tiredhal" <2tiredhal@c...> wrote:
> My father took quite a few photos of the 1939 World's Fair with his 
Rollei.  
> I just had the negatives scanned to TIFFs at a local shop and was 
quite surprised at 
> the amount of grain showing.  
 
> 
> Hal