Digital BW, The Print

Paul,Ginny, et al: I'm planning on giving the dr5
reversal processing a try for some selected B&W films
as well.  There's a rather extensive list of films
with their characteristics on his site which makes for
impressive reading but I don't as yet have direct
experience - anyone?  I know it has been discussed
before, but does anyone have further thoughts about
scanning B&W film positives vs negatives in a scanner
such as the Nikon 9000?

--- Paul Roark <paul.roark@...> wrote:

> >  ... XTOL produces a less 'dramatic' image than
> HC-110, 
> > but lends an almost luminous quality...with
> better, 
> > more subtle tonal separations.
> 
> When I run out of medium format Tech Pan, Tmax 100
> with Xtol will probably
> be my choice.  Xtol has the least amount of
> adjacency I've seen in a
> developer.  So, it produces very smooth grain.  I
> would have considered it
> too soft for the enlarger, but with a good scanner
> and unsharp masking in
> Photoshop, I now think low grain is more important
> than chemically-sharpened
> film.
> 
> > (And with all the Vitamin C in XTOL plus selenium
> toning, my pictures are
> > so 'healthy' they should live forever!! <G>)
> 
> The city sewer police saw my darkroom in house plans
> and were very concerned
> about the health of their sewer system.  Oddly,
> Microdol X was at the top of
> their list of bads.  Xtol was formulated,
> apparently, in part to avoid these
> problems.  The health of the sewer systems is one of
> its main points.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com 
> 
> 
> 


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