Many thanks indeed for the replies and interesting and informative discussion. I must admit that my question was not aimed at resuscitating the film vs digital debate. I largely use film, albeit I do have an Olympus digital for "emergencies". I used to have a GR Ricoh, but the quality was so poor that I tossed it into the back of a cupboard. My problem as Carlos, Kirk and William focused on was really about three problems when creating the scanned image: maintaining the quality; avoiding turning aesthetic grain into nasty digital noise; and maintaining the kind of image you get in black and white film in the digitalised image. The analyses and suggestions are much appreciated and give me heart, and I shall be looking into them further. Thanks again, gram. --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list