Digital BW, The Print

Of course, I was thinking silver halide paper printing, not the film itself;
Senile old fudd that I am. Apples and oranges.

Roger


On 10/7/08 4:11 PM, "Steve Gledhill" <stephengledhill@...> wrote:

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> Roger,
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> It’s not a paper question, it’s a film and scanning question.  The film is
> inherently capable of capturing that huge SBR - fact.  I accomplish this by
> processing in XTOL @ 1+2 @ 24C for 9 minutes – continuous agitation.  The next
> step requires the scanner to be able to scan high density negatives – or more
> specifically, areas of high density – the highlights.  My Epson V700 does that
> for me.  The scanner captures the whole range from clear film base to the
> maximum density of the negative and represents it in the TIFF file as a full
> range 16-bit greyscale scan.  So the huge SBR in the original scene is
> ‘compressed’ (via my workflow) into the range my paper is capable of – i.e.
> maximum ink black to paper white.
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> This is really a rehashing of the ‘expose for the shadows and develop for the
> highlights’.  In my workflow it becomes ‘expose for the shadows and scan for
> the highlights’.  I’ve abandoned processing N+ and N-.  Scanning for the
> highlights is my approach to handling that now.
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> Steve Gledhill
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> www.virtuallygrey.co.uk <http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/>
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> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Roger
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> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Getting reasonable scan file sizes w/ MF & LF
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> Sorry to jump in to a private conversation Steve, but how do you obtain 17
> stops range. When I was doing large format B&W using the zone system, the
> difference from dead black to paper white was 8/9 zones = 8/9 stops.
> Admittedly I am a dinosaur of the TRI-X, HC-110 era and have been out of
> the darkroom for some time but 17 full stops sounds miraculous.
> 
> Roger 
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