Digital BW, The Print

>I currently have an Epson 2450 scanner which works "ok" for medium
>format transparencies.  When I attempt to scan b&w negative film
>however, the results are horrible.  Here is my two current questions.

It would be helpful to know in what way your results are "horrible."
However, if you can print B&W fine from desaturated (desiderated?) color
negatives but not from b&w negatives and if your negatives appear as
negatives when opened in Photoshop,  it sounds like one or more of your
settings in Vuescan may be wrong. What settings are you using in the
"Device" tab? "Scan Mode" should be "transparency," "Media Type" should be
B/W Negative, "Bits Per Pixel" should be 16 bit gray. Preview Resolution
should be something very low to speed things along, I use 100 dpi,
Resolution should be whatever you want, presumably the max that the 2450 is
capable of with a medium format negative. Then under "Color" tab set your
film type, if your film isn't there try setting it for T Max 100, set your
CI (around .55 is a good place to start with a normal negative). The three
colors are all set to 1, set your black and white points based on the
preview histogram or as a place to start you could just use 0 for black and
1 for white.  See what happens.

If by "Quadtone for Windows" b&w printing software you mean Roy Harrington's
new QTR then someone else will have to help you with that, I haven't yet
tried it yet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "btvarner" <btvarner@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Scanning Black & White Negatives




I am new to this newsgroup & I hope this topic is correct for the
group.

I have gotten aware from black & white since moving to mainly digital
capture.  I am now attempting to re-enter producing black & white
images in the digital darkroom.  I am not new to digital, just to
digital b&w.

I currently have an Epson 2450 scanner which works "ok" for medium
format transparencies.  When I attempt to scan b&w negative film
however, the results are horrible.  Here is my two current questions.

1)  How do you get good scans of b&w negative film?

2)  When I scan b&w negative film and then open it in Photoshop, the
file is still a negative.  It has not been converted to a positive.
Also, the exposure is wayyyyyy off!  Always to dark, even though
during the scanning process the exposure looks fine.  What am I doing
wrong?

My work flow is:
Epson 2450 scanner
Viewscan 7.6.18 scan software
Photoshop CS
Epson 2000 printer
Quadtone for Windows b&w printing software

By the way, I can print b&w fine with desiderated color images.

Bruce Varner
Kansas City metro area







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