![]() ![]() Filters: Infrared cleaning does not work for traditional black and white negs the metallic silver in them interferes with it. Use it for slides it improves dark tone noise in dense slides. Multisampling: Don't bother with multisampling, it does nothing for BW negs. I don't think this is needed for the last generation Nikon scanners, like the 9000ED and 5000ED. Fine mode increases scan time a bit, but eliminates the banding. Some Nikon scanners, such as the LS-8000ED, have a bug that produces banding in the final scan. Fine Mode: If you use a Nikon scanner use this. ![]() If you use autofocus only on the prescan, it may focus on an area without much texture and reduce image sharpness in the final scan. This should be a detailed area, not a flat tone. On the Nikon scanners, you can choose a pont on the image for the autofocus mechanism to lock on to. Auto Focus: Always (if you scanner offers this.flatbeds don't usually). You'll regret this deeply when you decide to make a larger print and have to rescan and redo ALL your post-processing, dodging and burning, retouching, etc. Don't scan lower thinking you'll make smaller prints. Scan Resolution: Whatever your scanner's highest is. The Prescan is just needed so you can set the cropping of the scan. It doesn't need to be high resolution, so scanning for screen resolution makes the preview scan faster. The software makes the preview large enough to see on your screen. Some think that it is how its supposed to be, others know how a black and white image should look, and they conclude that scanning sucks and that it is incapable of quality rendering. It seems that most photographers just accept the flat, lifeless, dull image that the raw scan provides. A full range of tones on a BW negative will include some areas of clear or near clear film in the deepest blacks, but the brightest whites in a properly exposed and developed negative will not be near as dense as the blacks in a slide.įor that reason, negatives will always scan in very flat looking. A full range of tones on a color slide will include areas of totally clear film and areas of almost opaque black. ![]() I see a lot of images on the web that are scans from black and white negatives, and most of them look flat and dead.įilm scanners are designed primarily for scanning color transparencies, which have a much greater density range than a black and white negative. ![]()
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