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Re: Scanning Pyro Negs?

2006-03-28 by lulalake_1999

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mxgo95747" 
<mxgo95747@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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

Thanks for the tip Martin. Could you post the URL for tha lab so I 
can stop stinking up the house with pyro developing?

Thanks again

Jules

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