[Leica] Scanning Tri-X

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Thanks, Mark, Richard, Ken.

If I decide to do B&W film more, I will certainly develop my own film.  
The tanks and such are still in my garage.  And I did quite a lot of 
scanning before I went digital.

The way I scan, I do my best to get the entire range of the negative 
into a 16-bit TIFF, perhaps minus the specular highlights. Then I mess 
with curves, spotting, local contrast, and "dodging and burning" in 
Picture Window Pro. I might want to fool around with the files in 
Capture One if that's possible, I haven't checked yet.

Since the "Nurse" photo, I've worked up this one from the same roll. I 
like it.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/14085787215/>

--Peter


I wrote, and several others responded thereto:
 > I've embarked on an experiment to see whether I want to shoot B&W film
 > again.  The "Nurse" picture I recently posted was the beginning of that
 > experiment.
 > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/13892553280/>
 >
 > Here are a few things I've noticed while "recalibrating"
 > myself--otherwise known as "how the heck did I do this back in '06?"
 >
 > Here's a side by side of the same Tri-X shot, scanned at 4000 dpi (left)
 > and 2000 dpi (right). The negative was developed in Xtol 1:2 by
 > Moonphoto, a good B&W lab a few miles from my home.  The scanner is a
 > Canon FS-4000, running under VueScan.  Click the double rectangle above
 > the picture to see it full size.
 > 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/GrainAliasTriX4Kvs2Kdpi.JPG.html>