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rob_x2004 · 06/26/08, 05:20 AM

I'm on the wrong computer to be cropping bits out and putting arrows on them, but the black frame, that would be the bits in between shots on the negative? It seems to me to look like grey sandpaper so isnt there a noise and a black point problem going on? There is no reason it shouldnt be a shiny inky black, and it isnt. So that seems like scanning and or post processing. Translate that to the remainder of the scanned image and I reckon there is a fair amount of your answer there.

I get a similar looking scan straight off the scanner but that image is three to seven thousand pixels wide, depending on the scan resolution and resampling down to the size you show here averages away the noise, and so does printing anything under sixteen odd inch. What resolution was the scan? What did you do to the scan you got?

Black and white is an effort to learn how to scan, and I have never used the 3200, but I should imagine it doesnt have much of an exposure latitude, which to me would explain the degree of flatness of the scan, and that you would need fair editing skills to get good gradations going between blacks and whites. Add to that that the subjects appear to be in shadow so they are underexposed. How do you go with 100ISO silver based films?

06/26/08, 05:20 AM	#11 (permalink)
rob_x2004 Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 02/18/05 Posts: 3,998	Re: Under-developed film help! I'm on the wrong computer to be cropping bits out and putting arrows on them, but the black frame, that would be the bits in between shots on the negative? It seems to me to look like grey sandpaper so isnt there a noise and a black point problem going on? There is no reason it shouldnt be a shiny inky black, and it isnt. So that seems like scanning and or post processing. Translate that to the remainder of the scanned image and I reckon there is a fair amount of your answer there. I get a similar looking scan straight off the scanner but that image is three to seven thousand pixels wide, depending on the scan resolution and resampling down to the size you show here averages away the noise, and so does printing anything under sixteen odd inch. What resolution was the scan? What did you do to the scan you got? Black and white is an effort to learn how to scan, and I have never used the 3200, but I should imagine it doesnt have much of an exposure latitude, which to me would explain the degree of flatness of the scan, and that you would need fair editing skills to get good gradations going between blacks and whites. Add to that that the subjects appear to be in shadow so they are underexposed. How do you go with 100ISO silver based films?