Digital BW, The Print

pretty much how I do it too, and I did a LOT of testing to make sure it worked well. Accept for possibly something like Digital Photo Lab, most scanner software is inferior to Photoshop.
I used a cool old Lindbloom app called Levels to evaluate how many levels were left in a grayscale file, brought to the same final state various ways, and the least lossy method was this.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Lew Schwartz <lew1716@...> wrote:
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> So you and Walker don't do any curves or adjustments except for base & dMax
> on the scan side? This pretty much how we evaluate iso & development times
> for film.
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> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, piezobw <jon@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > I agree with Walker about the positive scanning of negatives - it helps
> > eliminate the scanner manufacturer's algorithm for converting a neg to a
> > positive. I find this the best way to get out of the film what is there,
> > without the scanner software imposing its own idea of what is there.
> >
> > I'll add a penny to his two cents...
> >
> > I usually set the white point on the film base + fog, and I set the black
> > point on fully exposed film (leader for example). This way everything that
> > has been exposed will exist within the dMin/dMax possibilities of the film.
> >
> > Jon Cone
> > Piezography
> >
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Walker Blackwell <forums@> wrote:
> > >
> > > For BW, I often do raw (positive) drumscans of BW negs and inverted them
> > in ACR. Then I import into Lightroom and do most of my global adjustments in
> > there. I like it because it's non-destructive and faaast! (+ there is no
> > duplicates. Just the raw scan files with non-destructive crop.)
> > >
> > > + It gives me a more darkroom-esque workflow and I take save all my
> > adjustments as templates, etc. For straight photography, it works really
> > well for me.
> > >
> > > Just my two cents,
> > > Walker
> > >
> >
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