Digital BW, The Print

I was just looking at this tutorial and thought it might be useful for the
grainy Minolta scans. I haven't tried it, so who knows...

It won't help the scanner but it may help the scans. The latter part of the
tutorial, which discusses the channel mixer may be of particular help. The
grain in that color scan to my eye looks rough because it seems to be
lacking in dyes clouds from any colors other than blue. Color films
typically have colorful grain, even in monochromatic areas, but that scan
did not. I think the extra colors tend to soften the harshness of the edges
of grain such as that, where you have a clump, then white space.

Anyway, never done it so....

http://www.rgbnet.co.uk/ilyons/multiscan/multiscan1.htm

Todd

> I am new to this forum and am glad I have found an audience for
> my concerns with my newly acquired Scan Multi Pro. . . . namely
> the grainy look in color negatives. I agree it does transparencies
> very well.
> 
> I did a scan of a 2 1/4 Reala neg with 50 GEM and still got this
> grainy look. A friend has posted a 2% slice of a golf course
> picture shot just after sunrise on an October morning. Here is
> the URL;
> 
> http://members.rogers.com/dale-cotton/Photos/DHarrisCrop.jpg
> 
> You can see the 'peppery' look  especially in the sky. I'm not so
> sure it is film grain, or maybe it was originally and the scanning
> process has accentuated it. Remember you are looking at only a
> 2% slice of the total scan so it seems flat and hazy. But this
> scene is equivalent to about a 2000mm lens
> 
> 'Grain' and the scanning times are my only issues. The colors
> and shadow detail are great and unlike what I had heard, color
> negs are easy to 'get right' . When I make a 13x19 inkjet of an
> image it seems sharper than a chemical print from the same
> negative but unfortunately this sort of  'peppery' look is apparent.
> 
> Anyway, if there are any insights they would be appreciated.
> 
> David