First, even stains in negatives usually prove inadequately removed antihalation dye...insufficient fix/wash. It's equivalent to fog when printing or scanning..it reduces contrast evenly but may suggest the negative wasn't adequately fixed/washed. Second, very few people use staining developers, probably nobody with TriX/Holga. Staining developer ideas simply confuse things here. COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC>>>It happens that I've inquired of folks who DO use staining developers and scan...they've told me scanners treat the stain identically to silver..it's considered colorless density by the scanner when in B&W mode, just as it is when using an enlarger...that's the whole point of a staining developer! (some say the stain color is faintly noticed by polycontrast paper but not significantly. Just to make the point about file size, a B&W neg that I just scanned as as if it was a chrome is 120.3MB...(can be inverted in Photoshop to look like a positive...not necessary with Vuescan, best practice with Nikonscan). The same neg scanned as a B&W neg produces 40.1MB and won't have to be inverted. John
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Re: [Digital BW] Scanning Black and White With Vuescan
2007-07-16 by djon43
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