Digital BW, The Print

With a ³high end² Nikon scanner at 4000 ppi, that should not have happened.
I suspect they did the scans with some auto levels or curves or the like.  I
get excellent B&W scans from my Nikon 4000 ED, and then do post processing,
not preprocessing.

Harry


On 12/23/07 1:53 PM, "nsams2002" <normsams@...> wrote:

> I recently had a local photo store do some scanning for me of some B&W 35mm
> negatives.  I was very disappointed with the results.  Areas in shadow, the
> details of which are visible in the negatives, were complete lost in a sea
> of black.  No way could I get Photoshop to bring out the details. The
> negatives were scanned by a high-end Nikon scanner (so I was told) and show
> up as 4,000 pixels per inch.  I asked if the scanning couldn't be adjusted
> to quiet down the blacks, and the answer was yes, but that this store didn't
> do that kind of custom work, and didn't want to get into same.  I was also
> told that the grain in the film made it very difficult to get a good scan.
> I was given a full refund, which I hadn't asked for, as some of the scans
> were somewhat o.k.  So, I don't know.  Maybe I should try a different shop?
> Would I be able to do better if I did my own scanning?  (I don't want to put
> a lot of money into a machine which I wouldn't be using all that much).  Or
> is the scanning of negatives bound to result in a vastly inferior image?
> 
> Norm  
> 

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Harry F. Lockwood




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