Digital BW, The Print

Getting good B&W negatives is not only based on the film choice, but the
developer and development dilution and development time.  I strongly suggest
trying D-76 1:1 for Tri-X (and Plus-X).

Regards,

Austin

> since no home scanner can accurately capture the actual visible grain
> of Tri-X you are stuck trying to process around this failure... you
> may be able to do this to your satisfaction, but I have not, nor have
> I seen anyone else's work that satisfies me... though I haven't seen
> your work of course.  the scanner scans across the grain and
> quantizes the image as it should, but that does not mean that the
> results are pleasing.  With finer grained films the images already
> look smooth and the averaging that occurs during a scan just
> maintains the smoother look.  For large format work, the quantization
> of Tri-X is not so much an issue because, even though it looks bad
> when you zoom in, you don't have to enlarge it as much and it is left
> in the sub-visible realm.
>
> how do you process out the obvious grain quantization from your Tri-X
> scans?
>
> mark
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony G.
> Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> > Mark Hahn writes:
> >
> > > I've yet to see anyone's 35mm Tri-X scanned really well on
> > > any home scanner though... which is a shame, because I love
> > > Tri-X ...
> >
> > Tri-X can easily be scanned from the scanner's standpoint, but get
> the
> > results you want requires a lot of tweaking and practice.
>
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