Digital BW, The Print

One thing I've noticed in scanning in general, is that scanners vastly 
prefer underdeveloped film to overdeveloped.  If you've been used to 
making bulletproof negs for blasting in the darkroom, you'll be very 
disappointed when you try to scan them.  I have gotten perfectly usable 
images from wrongly-exposed chromes (forgot to change the ISO or 
something), where there appeared to be virtually nothing on the film.  
To my amazement, the scanner scanned the film quite well!  Conversely, 
I've had some negs that looked great on the light table, and would have 
printed fine in an enlarger, that the scanner scanned ok but not as 
well as expected.  So, if you're setting up to test carefully, don't be 
surprised if the scanner likes negs that are thinner than you would 
normally make.

James Irelan