Digital BW, The Print

Great tip Mel.

I was wondering why the 16yo girl at the lab with the flextight was 
giving me sharpened grainy damned scans. I said have you sharpened 
it and she said it was 0 level. I use t-max 100 but its's all 
portrait stuff

Garry Sarre

www.sarre.com.au


> When scanning form the Imacon scanner the operator
> must enter a  negative -160 amount in the sharpening
> box to equal  an effective -0- sharpening amount. 
> Otherwise the built in sharpening kicks in.  This is
> only ever reccomended for very grainy negatives.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Mel
> NavaSwan - Imaging
> 
> 
> From: "atmcintyre2001" <amcintyre@b...>
> Subject: Excessive grain in scanned images
> 
> 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.
> 
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