Digital BW, The Print

I have an Epson 2450 and at first I was just scanning my sleeved 6x7 negs one row at a time with the transparency adapter.  Lately I have just put the cover on the transparency unit and scanned the full sheet reflectively.  Then I take the image into photoshop and adjust the levels, often individually using the marquee tool.  With 16 bit I get enough info in the image for making a contact, and scanning the full sheet is much quicker.  There is some ghosting which probably has to do with stray reflections from the sleeve, it would probably be a good idea to remove them.  We are talking about contacts here, though, and I find this works fine.

> How's that?  Why not just use a transparency adapter?
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> Austin
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> > 16 bit scans will help here.