Digital BW, The Print

"Jean-Marc Humbert"  wrote:

> After hundreds of scans (with different kind of negatives and
> different ways of process), I am still disappointed with:
> 
> - the poor histograms I obtain in PS
> - the gap in shadow area (from 0 to 25/30, no data at all!) which is 
> quite annoying for printing with the PiezographyBW plugin since it 
> requests strong blacks...


With B+W negs you are not going to get a full histogram when brought into 
Photoshop as the scanner has no problem with the density of b+w negs. With 
color slides you'll get a full histogram and maybe clipping too.

After the scan - in Photoshop use Levels to set the end points - both shadow and 
highlights. That should get you a nice black.

John V.