Digital BW, The Print

You would be better off having the negs rescanned from scratch, 
rather than trying to save them at this point. In the FlexColor 
software, a USM setting of -60, that's negative 60, in effect, is 
zero unsharp masking. Why, I don't know, but it is. Imacon 
recommends scanning negs at -60, and transparenicies at 
about 250, due to difference in the grain. I'd ask your scanner 
person to rescan them at -60 and then look at a sample.

Personally, I'd scan negs at 100-150. If the grain is there, I'd 
rather it be sharp than murky. Nothing worse to me than an 
image with the grain not sharp. (Think of darkroom prints with 
the enlarger head out of alignment -- where the grain gets soft 
and mucky on the edges of the frame -- that's what I'm talking 
about).

But it's your call. That's what I can offer.

Mark Tucker