Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mh" <mh@t...> wrote:
...The good thing about overexposing negatives is that you will always
have information in there (it is very hard to go to black black)
whereas if you underexpose it is possible to get nothing but the
noise of the base material/scanner.
> 
> -MikeH

My experience has been just the opposite with a Nikon Coolscan V.
Sometimes there is unintentional overexposure followed by normal
development and the scanned images have little contrast with
grain/noise being very present. 

Cheers,
André