[Leica] Hybrid Imaging & Printing

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Hi Dan, I have been scanning film since... 2003? First with mainly E-6, and 
now mainly B&W. The rules of scanning B&W are:
- It CAN be done. There are lots of people who told you the grain 
exaggeration, point light source, blah blah blah. Ignore them. Me, Steve 
Unsworth and tons others have scanned millions of frames in total (OK, I 
didn't really count) with supposedly "bad" scanners.

- a film scanner is better a flatbed scanner

- pay $40 or whatever it is for Vuescan. The user interface sux. Ignore the 
"change of the week." Just d/l and buy one version and keep using that 
unless there are good reasons to upgrade.

- with Vuescan, set the exposure to White balance, film type to generic 
color, 16 bits Gray. Turn OFF infrared cleaning (or ICE in other scanner. 
This is very important).

- Do keep your negs clean, clean, clean!

That's about it for scanning. For printing, it depends on what printer you 
have now or which printers you want to buy... Well, I suppose that's true 
with scanning too :-)

Give more specific and I will try to help.

At 12:56 PM 6/8/2006, you wrote:

>Hi LUGgers
>
>I am temporarily in a situation when I have no access to darkroom but
>can still do B&W film processing,  In this interim period, I am
>thinking of scanning and view my images (I use a Mac i-Book) and
>possibly print an odd image of two in an inkjet printer (mostly 4x6",
>sometimes A4 size).
>
>If you have actually done what I have in mind to do, please share with
>me what scanner and printer you are using to continue enjoying making
>prints (and wait for a day when that film can pop into the enlarger to
>make silver halide prints).
>
>Ta,
>
>Dan K.

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