Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

A little more info here might be helpful.  Are you seeing the grain only
in the final print or on your monitor as well(viewed at 100%)?  Also,
what method are you using for sharpening, sometimes using a very low
threshold in unsharp mask can yield very "grainy" results.

Scanning at low resolutions will not help this problem at all, it will,
as you mentioned, only limit the size of output possible.  If I were you
I would examine my image workflow from start to finish, is processing of
the film an issue (have you made traditional prints)?  Are you using the
scanner's native sharpening, and then sharpening in PS?  How are you
printing these images, on what printer & what inks?

Just a few thoughts, hope they help.
Daren




Steve Woolfenden 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 . Presumably I am introducing
> grain during scanning or something? Any ideas why this would happen
> and what I should do to avoid it?? I'm using a decent scanner [Nikon
> LS4000] and scanning at max res.....?
> Someone suggested scanning at lower res. but then , presumably , one
> would have problems making a decent sized print.
> Any help appreciated
> Steve


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