Digital BW, The Print

Certainly try Dana's suggestion.  If that fails, get a good drum scan.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Dana Myers <dana.myers@...> wrote:

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> On 7/23/2012 2:07 PM, togeorge626 wrote:
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> > I have begun to scan in B&W negatives from my darkroom past. I use a
> Nikon 9000ED and VuScan for this. The problem is that when
> > I scan certain favorite negatives that include images of the sun, the
> over-exposed sun images and immediate surround are totally
> > impenetrable to the scanner, even with two or three passes. These same
> images printed very well through an optical enlarger
> > along with the expected heavy burning of the sun image area, which was
> able to show a density curve even within the darkest area.
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> > I could accept defeat and scan an optical print of these negatives
> (sigh). However I wonder if: a) I could adjust the 9000 in
> > some way to make it scan through the spot, or b) if an expensive drum
> scan would do the job?
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> I've had good success with *really* dense negs adjusting the analog gain
> of the 9000ED.
> Dunno if/how Vuescan enables this.
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> Dana
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