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Re: [Digital BW] For those using the Nikon ED 4000 to scan B&W negatives

Re: [Digital BW] For those using the Nikon ED 4000 to scan B&W negatives

2002-11-07 by Loris Medici

See Silverfast Ai 6.0 @ http://www.silverfast.com
It is a very powerful tool (for negatives especially)..
I scan as Grayscale negative (using specific profiles for 50+ films) and
output 16bit to PS. Very smooth and wide histograms...

Regards,
Loris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Marc Humbert" <humbertjm@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] For those using the Nikon ED 4000 to scan B&W
negatives
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> Dear all:
>
> I've been using the Nikon Coolscan ED 4000 for 18 months only to scan
> B&W negatives (Agfa APX 25, TMax 100 and 400) to print them on A4/A3+
> papers (using mostly the PiezographyBW plugin with MIS Quad inks).
>
> I use Nikon Scan 3.1.2. (I have tried Vuescan but was not convinced).
>
> ...
> - the poor histograms I obtain in PS
> - the gap in shadow area (from 0 to 25/30, no data at all!) which is
> quite annoying for printing with the PiezographyBW plugin since it
> requests strong blacks...
>
> Is there any tricks I missed?
>
> What are your settings when scanning B&W negatives?

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