Digital BW, The Print

I've just tested Vuescan with some suggested settings...very
good...better than Nikon neg>neg>pos....somehow sharper as well as
perhaps better tonally...maybe the inversion loses something Vs
original TIFFs?

Interesting about the old news :-)


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> It was actually a known flaw in the software, Nikon was trying hard 
> to ignore it. About 2 years ago another list member (I believe Ernst 
> Dinkle?) circulated a petition politely requesting they clean up 
> their act; I guess if it's no longer neccessay with the 9000 they 
> finally did something about it.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Graham" 
> <gebilwil@n...> wrote:
> > This supposedly was important with the 8000 and is not necessary 
> with the 9000.
> > 
> > Haven't tried it though.
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Djon" 
> <westsidemaurice@y...> 
> > wrote:
> > > 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?