Digital BW, The Print

That's very useful Bruce, regarding the opening up of the aperture to
reduce grain. There is a Gain setting with Silverfast that I'm using
but I never use it.

One thing that I have noticed routinely with the Howtek when scanning
black and white film is that with my unit the scans are a bit over
sharpened at 4000 ppi, making them apper more grainy,esp 35mm tri-x. I
add a tad of gaussian blur and it is smoothed out. Increasing the
aperture in Silverfast would probably be a better method. I'll try it!

Thanks.

John