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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Scanning Tri-X

2004-01-09 by Daniel Staver

Tri-X is one of my favorite films for grain, so I was surprised to read
that it's no good for scanning. I guess everybody's tastes are
different... I've tried numerous films, and I keep coming back to Tri-X.

I usually rate it at 800 to get more speed and grain. We have about five
hours of weak daylight here in Norway at the moment, so I need all the
speed I can get...

I scan on the Minolta 5400 and find that it can resolve the grain
nicely.

On the front page of my site images 2-4 and 8-9 are Tri-X rated at 800.
Of course, it's kind of hard to tell what the grain is like because of
the JPEG compression.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

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