[filmscanners] RE: Scanning B+W negatives

Hi Art, I sat there for most of the christmas break practising loading a film onto a reel in the changing bag. The pressure seems to double when you know it isn't a test film in there anymore (but a real one!). I'm using a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual (original ~2400ppi) dedicated film scanner, lates

[filmscanners] Re: Scanning B+W negatives

Congratulations on developing your first B&W film. I hope it was fun. I can't do it anymore due to a sulfite allergy, but it was usually an enjoyable part of the photographic process, especially once I figured out how to load the reels correctly in the dark ;-) Some of the nature of the answer yo

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

If the scratches are superficial on the non-emulsion side and do not alter the actual image, using dICE which your scanner has incorporated, is probably the best answer. You might even find that minor damage to the image will be corrected this way. As you probably know, dICE cannot work with silv

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

Polaroid still has their free dust and scratch remover software (DSR) on their website: http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html I've found it to be pretty effective. It won't work with compressed .tif files, though, so you need to resave those files with the compression off.

[filmscanners] Scanning B+W negatives

Happy New Year All, I have finally got round to developing my first B+W films - an Ilford FP4+ & an HP5+. I have viewscan, and many webpages recommend different ways of scanning B+W negs. Does anyone here shoot Ilford B+W, and scan regularly? What settings do you use? I intend to shoot a lot of

[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

>Hello > >to get the new year going... > >I have lots of transparencies that have been scratched at the printers >in the past, what are the best programs/techniques for cleaning these >up, post scanning with a Nikon Coolscan LS-2000. > All depends upon how many 'lots' are and how fussy you are wil

[filmscanners] cleaning up scratched transparencies

Hello to get the new year going... I have lots of transparencies that have been scratched at the printers in the past, what are the best programs/techniques for cleaning these up, post scanning with a Nikon Coolscan LS-2000. happy new year. -- Paul Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]