Digital BW, The Print

Density is a problem with many consumer scanners. It's not a 300/500 projector.

I sometimes scan the opposite to fool the scanware. scan B&W negs as transparancies, etc..

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On 1/3/08 at 8:05 PM Juan Riera wrote:

>I use an Epson V750 Pro for b&w negatives and colour transparencies fom 
>35 mm to 13x18 cm. I'm quite satisfied with results above 6x6 cm, but 
>not with 35 mm scans. I have an old Minolta Dual Scan II that's no 
>match either.
>Most of the scanning is done with Epson software in professional mode, 
>but on difficult negative scans I use Silverfast SE that comes with 
>scanner, doing multipass mode.
>The scanner has a wet mount option that I have never used, maybe 
>because I'm too lazy to do the neg preparation and I'm quite satisfied 
>with results. My prints goes only to A3 size in Epson 2400, so I don't 
>enlarge very much.
>My 35 mm b&w negatives are too dense in shadows and at date I couldn't 
>get a good scan from any of them.
>
>Juan Riera
>www.juanriera.net
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