Digital BW, The Print

Pete,

I use a UMAX PowerLook III to scan a sheet of negatives and then send them
to my 900 as "contact sheet". The PowerLook is excellent for this purpose.

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Su" <psu_13@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:06 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Digital proofing


> Having just spent a day making 30 contact sheets, my thoughts
> again turned to using a flat bed scanner for doing the same
> thing.
>
> I have tried this in the past with mixed luck. I found that with the
> low end UMAX scanner that I tried, it took much longer to get  a
> decent scan (e.g. one where there is reasonable contrast,
> shadow and highlight detail) than to make a single contact sheet
> in the darkroom.
>
> If someone could find me a scanner and workflow that would get
> me one good contact sheet in 15 minutes then I might be
> inclined to try again.
>
> At this point, I'm still happy printing wet, so the scans don't have
> to be good enough for enlargements.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Pete
>
>
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