Digital BW, The Print

They could of been scanned incorrectly. Have one scanned somewhere else 
and see if you get the same results. Have them scanned with ALL 
sharpening off.
Mark

On Nov 23, 2003, at 11:14 PM, redwoods2tiredhal wrote:

> My father took quite a few photos of the 1939 World's Fair with his 
> Rollei.  The
> negatives were stored for 64 years in "Nega-Print Album."  The album 
> is made up of
> soft paper envelopes that two photos were attached to the front and 
> back and the
> four corresponding negatives were stored inside.
>
> I just had the negatives scanned to TIFFs at a local shop and was 
> quite surprised at
> the amount of grain showing.  There was a little dust, no prints, and 
> no
> scratches.  But, the grain is strange.  Maybe the chemistry of the 
> negatives changed
> over time, some interaction with the envelopes, or they weren't 
> totally fixed.  Anyway,
> there's going to be quite a lot of PS work to do before these are 
> printable.  Lot's of
> work ahead of me. 
>
> Hal
>
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