16 bit TIFF scan from Kodak T-Max400

[Braaamer]

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Hi all,

I just completed my first roll of T-Max400 with my first Leica (M3) and scanned 16 bit TIFFs using a Nikon Coolscan V. 
It would be great if someone here would kindly send me a T-Max400 16 bit TIFF scan from their images for comparison. I would just be interested in comparing grain, tonality etc. 

Thanks in advance! I guess we could get this arranged through email with Maildrop, Dropbox or Wetransfer.

Best regards,

Erik

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[Braaamer]

I should mention that the file should be the original, possibly rather flat TIFF before any further adjustments in image editing software. 

[Doc Henry]

 

like nobody answers you since yesterday ....

according to my fifteen years of scanning , I advise you to scan in TIFF as you do , in 14 Bits with Nikon Scan V or in 16 bits with Nikon CS5000  (I have both scans)

The size is larger (> 118 MP each picture) and it's useful for archiving on a Hard Disk > black grey palette in B&W or color palette will be richer ...

never scan in compressed JPEG .

Sorry but we can't post here in TIFF and it's too big  ... I want to do it with a USB key and send you the USB key by post but I don't really see the point what you want to do with it ?

https://howtoscan.ca/scanning-tips/tiff-vs-jpeg-scans.php

Best

Henry

All my pictures  posted in the thread below are scanned in TIFF (size each picture = around 120 MP) posted in compressed JPEG witn "No correction"

I scan in linear curve . I only use Free Nikon Factory software > No Vuescan and No Silverfast or another paying software with update also paying

I develop myself in my homelab color and B&W film from a decade.

 

 

Edited May 22, 2022 by Doc Henry

[frame-it]

22 hours ago, Braaamer said:

I would just be interested in comparing grain, tonality etc. 

how would you do that with someone else's shot...too many variables > exposure/lighting/development etc etc

 

[Doc Henry]

...   to follow up on what Frame-it  said  ,  Kodak TX 400  is more grainy than TMax 400 IMHO

Edited May 22, 2022 by Doc Henry

[Braaamer]

Thanks, chaps, I fully understand that there won’t be any possibility for me to really compare anything. But I would get a general impression. T-Max400 being finer grain than TriX400 is also my understanding. 
Thanks, Don Henry, I will have a look at your jpgs in the thread you linked to. If these are based on linear scans without any further post-processing, it will likely serve my purpose.