Digital BW, The Print

Lew, I'vealways been happiest with "flat" negs...wanted longest
possible scale and smallest possible maximum specular highlights. 
I've not sought grain but have avoided solvent developers (ie with
sodium sulfite). Rodinal does that trick nicely, as did Neofin Blau
and Neofin Rot and FG7 without sulfite. 
 
I think a scanner is a closer approximation of condenser than
diffusion enlarger.

"Snappy" negs can be a problem for scanning if there are big very
dense areas. Scanners aren't aspatient as enlargers :-) 

John --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Lew
<lew1716@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for responding. When you develop your film with scanning in
mind, do you adjust development for more or
> less contrast? I have years of snappy negatives that I developed for
printing with a diffuser enlarger.
> -Lew 
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