Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Steve..

It's "often suggested" but I never really believed it was true... I
thought I was off into urban-scanning-mythologyland...

Did Nikon mention it somewhere... or is this just a wonderful bit of
Internet wisdom? 




> > 
> > Scanning B&W negs as pos is often suggested... helps with this
> > image...any idea WHY this works, if in your experience it does?
> 
> Hi; I too have a Nikon scanner, and scan as positives; this gives you 
> all the information from the scan which you can then massage to your 
> liking. If you scan as a negative, the software sets black point/ white 
> point and contrast curve, and for a B&W neg it just doesn't work well. 
> does a bit better for color negs though.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis