Digital BW, The Print

> I have some 6cm x 6cm b&w negatives exposed back in the early '60s on
  > Tri X Pan Professional.  ... scanned by a bureau through an
  > Imacon Flextight machine, ... grain has become so pronounced that the
  > scans are virtually unusable.
  >

  It seems we are all fighting this.  I've found the "smart blur" tools to
be most useful.

  I'll be experimenting with different films and developers to see where to
go from here.

  The color negative technology films like T400CN and XP2 allow the GEM
grain reduction programs to work, but that program puts its own artifacts in
the image and is very slow on my Wintel with 512 MB.  I've found a
multi-scan workaround that gets rid of the GEM artifacts (which looks like
an 8 x 8 pixel grid), but it even takes more time.  Even when all the grain
and artifacts of T400CN are removed, there is still a lumpiness that is not
to my liking.

  Paul
  http://www.PaulRoark.com


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