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Re: Scanning Pyro Negs?

2006-03-28 by mxgo95747

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "lulalake_1999" 
<lulalake_1999@...> wrote:
>
> -

> I do all my processing (not really all that much on a pyro neg)as a B&W 
> scanned in as RGB, then when I go to print, I convert the image to a 
> 20% dot gain grayscale. I use QTR and a 2200 for smaller work and farm 
> it out for larger prints. 
> 
> Jules
>


Jules, thanks for the input.  Using the 24 bit color negative setting, in Vuescan, for "Pyro" 
processed B&W film and converting them to B&W in PhotoShop did the trick.  I have a lab in 
Sacramento, California do the "pyro" processing.  They only do B&W work.

Martin

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