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Re: [Digital BW] Black areas in Scanned negatives

2009-09-11 by pdesmidt tds.net

Scan resolution isn't the problem.  You're clipping image data.  Check all
of your scanner settings to make sure that you clip as little as possible.
Sometimes black and white clipping points are expressed as a percentage.
Make that number as small as possible. It can also help to include some of
the unexposed film area around the image on the negative, since that scanner
software will now treat that as image material, and the film base will have
less density than any place in the frame that has detail.


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