[pure-silver] Re: Need some help and ideas
- From: Myron Gochnauer <goch@xxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:02:32 -0300
If range is an issue, it wouldn't be hard (for some people) to make several
prints at different exposures and/or contrasts, and then "stack" the scans
using suitable masks.
The major limitation, though, is probably resolution, unless you silver-print
larger than your intended final digital-print.
Myron
On 2012-09-11, at 12:51 PM, Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's more in a neg than we, OK I, can get onto silver paper. Short of
> contrast masks and so on when printing in the darkroom, scanning from your
> negs gave you the most info possible to work with.
>
> From: BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:23 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Need some help and ideas
>
> DEAR NICHOLAS,
> You may be right but I scanned all my 8X10 negs (over 100) for my
> book, BARBADOS CHATTEL HOUSES (avail on Amazon.com), with my Epson V750 Pro
> and the image quality in the book has received high compliments from
> photographers and photo critics alike.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nicholas O. Lindan
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 8:25 PM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Need some help and ideas
>
> <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > My problem is that I have a lot of
> > old black and white negatives that
> > must be digitized ... I have been
> > unhappy with the scans I have been
> > getting ...
>
> I find I get the best results by scanning the silver
> analog print.
>
> Scanners aren't made for scanning black and white
> negatives with silver grains in them - they want to
> see color negative or color slide film. They will
> do black and white as a 'marketing claim', but
> IMO they do a poor job of it. Of course one man's
> 'poor' is another man's 'excellent'.
>
> Nicholas O. Lindan
> Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
> Cleveland, Ohio 44121
>
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