Digital BW, The Print

It's always good to encourage a traditional wet technique like
Farmer's Reducer...I used it once in 25 years of intense souping...
http://www.silverprint.co.uk/chem26.html

But I suspect the problem isn't the film's grain so much as
exaggeration by the scanner.  Recent flatbeds have the same problem,
though its true that they don't exaggerate as much as sharper
dedicated film scanners.

Gaussian blur and sharpening aren't as much sensual fun as mixing
chems and making messes, that's for sure.



> 
> You might consider a non-digital first step-run them through some 
> farmer's reducer & physically decrease the grain size to start with. 
> Scanning them on something incapable of delineating grain well like 
> a flatbed scanner might also help.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis