Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to everyone for their input. I guess it's back to some more 
experimentation for a while until I can get a densitometer. On top of 
all this my Nikon D70 died on me after just 2 months. It's at the 
factory getting fixed. They say things happen in threes---what's next?

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Staver 
<daniel@p...> wrote:
> Yeah, I guess the results will vary a lot from scanner to scanner. 
Roy 
> said that the Epson 3200 gave results close to what he got from his 
> densitometer. I have the same scanner and think the results aren't 
too bad.
> 
> Why don't you just play around with GRAY_GAMMA, GRAY_HIGHLIGHT, and 
> GRAY_SHADOW in the meantime? You can create really good curves even 
> without linearization. It just takes a little more experimentation 
and 
> tweaking.
> 
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no
> 
> 
> > I see the incorrerct number of 75 in the line. I went back and 
> > started from square one and plugged in the densities again and it 
did 
> > generate a curve, but it is flat in the middle tones; and just 
not 
> > good for any printing. I just can't get the LAB VALUES to work in 
> > generating a curve. I missed out on another densitometer on eBay 
just 
> > a few minutes ago. That makes 8 I've tried to get with no 
success. 
> > I'll see if I can get access to the densitometer again this week 
with 
> > a fresh grayscale print that has not been tagged or worked up in 
> > PhotoShop or anything but the straight unadulterated file.--- In