Digital BW, The Print

Andy,

The SS4000 I had resolved the grain of Tmax 400 negatives so I would 
think that it would work well for Tri-X. No experience scanning XP2 
but it did well with color negatives.

You might like Silverfast, which comes bundled with the SS4000.

Common thought is to scan the negatives in raw mode as a transparency 
at the scanner's native optical resolution (4000dpi in this case) and 
then manipulate the image in Photoshop. Inversions from positive to 
negative will not degrade the image. If your end result is to be a 
negative you will still want to work with the image as a positive to 
assess the results of your manipulations and then invert at the end 
of the workflow.

Martin Wesley


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., shashinka@a... wrote:
> Before I do it, can anyone comment on success from Tri-X BW or 
llford XP2 on 
> the Polaroid SS4000?  If so, which software did the job best and if 
I'm 
> outputting to a negative, should I scan as a positive?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy Darlow