Digital BW, The Print

I went exactly the opposite way... from Vuescan to Silverfast and have 
generally been happy with the results.
Are you using the HDR (or something like that) setting? It ends up 
giving you a negative image which, by inverting then setting a white & 
a black in levels or curves, gives a pretty wide tonaltiy with a lot of 
hightlight detail. Kind of a pain, but I've been happy with the 
results. You might also try - I haven't done this - scanning a b/w neg 
as a color neg and working with it in photoshop. but then, for the 
hassle, using Vuescan might be best...

 MY problem with the Sprintscan/Silverfast is that I can't center the 
prescan exactly, so I always end up with the left or right 5-10% cut 
off. Piddling, I know, but it keeps me awake at night. Any advice?

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" <
julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> Bruce, I started with silverfast and dumped it in favour of vuescan for just
> the reasons you describe. I keep retrying it because I love the histogram in
> preview, but it does really badly for me in BW negs.
> 
> Julian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Kinch" <pvx@m...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:39 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Silverfast problem
> 
> 
> > I've mostly been lurking here as I get my digital printing set-up in
> > order-and delighted by the information I've picked up.
> >
> > I recently got a Polaroid SS4000, and have had no problem with their
> > software or with Vuescan in scanning BW negatives in grayscale.
> > However, in "graduating" to Silverfast 5 Ai, I find that I am getting
> > distinct "posterization" of tonalities. I downloaded the current
> > version, but no improvement. As Silverfast has innumerable options, I
> > may have something set wrong. Anyone with ideas on what might be
> > causing this?
> >
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