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

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Subject: [Leica] The Last Words on B&W Scanning
From: rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)
Date: Thu Jul 13 09:30:10 2006
 
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??  Howzabout scanning as positives and 
flipping them in Photoshop??  Does scanning at 3200 or so often lead to 
less grain aliasing than 4800? (I have a not-so-great Epson 2870 and 
Silverfast.)

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
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