Digital BW, The Print

on 11/14/01 12:07 AM, Mark Tucker wrote:

> I'd say ANY scan that YOU made,
> even from an inferior-hardware scanner , would be better than a
> scan from some high-end thing, made by someone who wasn't
> there when you shot the image.

There is one other option particularly for Grayscale images. You could get a
raw scan off a hi-end scanner and "develop" it yourself in Photoshop. (I say
particularly for grayscale because they are far easier to process than color
materials, with color neg. being the most difficult with it's orange cast).

If I were farming out my scans I'd try to get highbit raw scans. The reason
is you can then be doing local edits in highbit, something no scanner
allows.

Todd