Digital BW, The Print

I'm going to throw in with the group here.  When scanning, you want to
preserve as much info from the captured info as possible, and tonal
manipulation in the software will cause the loss of tones.  It's important
to distinguish hard ware changes, changes which effect the data captures,
and software changes, changes which manipulate the captured data.  When
scanning, just as with photographing, you want to control the exposure
through hardware adjustments to capture detail though out the scene.  The
problem with scanning is that scanning software does not make clear what is
a hardware adjustment and what is a software one.  With most consumer
scanners, there are few, if any, hardware adjustments, and the software is
loaded with extraneous adjustments that would be better made in Photoshop.


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