Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] The Last Words on B&W Scanning
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu Jul 13 13:37:01 2006
References: <6286f17622f28baafb27380ea8fbd057@depaul.edu>

On 7/13/06, bob palmieri <rpalmier@depaul.edu> wrote:
> Folks -
>
> Okay; I'm trying to get over my general disappointment with the way my
> B&W film scans looks (Tri-X or Neopan 1600 in Xtol).  I now need to
> scan several things within the next coupla hours.
>
> I see a lot of you folks posting some damn good-looking B&W images from
> these film/developer combos. Is the collective wisdom that I should
> scan the negs as color negs??

I scan as 16 bit b/w (not color) in Vuescan.

> Howzabout scanning as positives and
> flipping them in Photoshop??

Sounds cool, if you don't have anything better to do with your time.
Otherwise, I wouldn't bother.

> Does scanning at 3200 or so often lead to
> less grain aliasing than 4800? (I have a not-so-great Epson 2870 and
> Silverfast.)

Can'g give a good answer here because I always can at the highest
possible resolution.

> Since I use the Digest mode, if anyone feels so kind as to E me
> directly I'd sure appreciate it.  I gotta get these thing out...
>
> Bob Palmieri

Hope things work out, Bob. Drop a line otherwise.

Daniel

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