Digital BW, The Print

There has been extensive discussion of this problem and the 
phenomenon of "grain aliasing" in general on the Usenet 
newsgroup comp.periphs.scanners, so you might post a 
message there .... It seems that this effect is far more 
pronounced on some scanners than others. Many Nikon 
scanner users say it's not a problem for them. I use a Polaroid 
Sprintscan 4000 and haven't found it to be a problem, but I've 
used a Kodak Rapid Film Scanner in the past, and the grain was 
extremely pronounced.

Peter

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "atmcintyre2001" 
<amcintyre@b...> wrote:
> I have some 6cm x 6cm b&w negatives exposed back in the 
early '60s on 
> Tri X Pan Professional. They blew up to 20" x 16" quite 
successfully 
> using a DeVere cold-cathode enlarger. 
> 
> Recently I had some of these negatives scanned by a bureau 
through an 
> Imacon Flextight machine, but grain has become so 
pronounced that the 
> scans are virtually unusable.