Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film for B&W digital printing ?
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:10:27 -0400
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Check with Austin

Adam Bridge wrote:
> On 2003-09-08 jerryleh@pacbell.net (Jerry Lehrer) thoughtfully wrote: 
> 
> 
>>As you may realize, I know nowt about digital scanning, but
>>I would imagine that a silver image should be easier to scan
>>than a dye and silver image such as Kodachrome.  Are scanners
>>set up to primarily scan color negatives?  If so, then a B&W C41
>>would be the film of choice.
> 
> 
> Boy, I remember a discussion somewhere, perhaps here, that talked about grain
> aliasing and the type of scanner being used - that the CCD scanners like the
> SuperCoolScan 4000 from Nikon doesn't do as good a job on silver as it does on
> the C41 dye processes.
> 
> I'm starting to beleive that although I've not gone to the trouble to find one
> of the good Polaroid scanners. Well, now that I think of it I can't since I
> think they are all SCSI and I no longer have a SCSI adaptor that works for any
> of my computers, having shifted entirely to FireWire.
> 
> Is there someone out there who can address this? It might be relevant to Phong.
> 
> TCN400 scans really well for me. AND it has the advantage that scratch removal
> software works just fine with it while it doesn't with silver films.
> 
> Adam
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Replies: Reply from Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net> (Re: [Leica] Film for B&W digital printing ?)
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