Digital BW, The Print

> I'm a real stickler for quality, coming from a large format camera 
> background.  I'm planning on purchasing a MF (medium format) camera 
> in the near future; I've been seeing some good deals.  BUT, I feel I 
> will have a hard time justifying the expense of a 4000 dpi scanner.

While I highly recommend purchasing a Nikon 8000, before I bought mine I
enlarged my MF negatives onto 8x10 Kodak "Fine Grain Positive" film, #7302.
This film can be tray processed under standard safelights.  In Xtol full
strength at room temperature it has a gamma of about 1 with 4 minutes of
development.  Once you have an 8x10 film image, you can get a very good scan
from a modest flatbed scanner with a transparency adapter.  

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

For UT2 information, curves, and settings see:
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