Digital BW, The Print

You can try using Silverfast.  They have a setting for dark, dense
negatives in their HDR Studio processing software.  There is a beta version
of the newest upgrade that you can download and try for free:

http://www.silverfast.com/show/silverfast8-hdr/en.html

It works for me and I will buy it when the official version is released.

Tina



On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:07 PM, togeorge626 <togeorge41934@...>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.
>
> 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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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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