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Re: [Digital BW] Grain on B&W film??

2001-11-10 by Tim Mimpriss

Steve Wolfenden wrote:
This is probably a bit off-topic but hopefully someone can offer some advice
. I seem to be getting fairly grainy results from B&W negs , at A4 and A3+ ,
even when using fine grained film[e.g.Delta100] which does not show much
grain on the negs .

Steve,

Make sure that the scanner is not automatically applying USM by default. If
you need to sharpen before printing, try the high pass/hard light technique
instead of USM.

Tim

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