RE: Need help with B&W film scanning

Colin, I use a Microtek Scanmaker 4 also and have been completely satisfied with 4x5 negatives and transparencies from pinhole. But my 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 have been pretty disappointing (for printing up to 8" x 8"). Have you had any luck scanning and printing 2 1/4 neg/pos film?

Gregg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Talcroft [mailto:ctalcroft@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:21 PM
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Need help with B&W film scanning
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Microtek Scanmaker 4 scanner as well and have
> been quite pleased with my results scanning B&W
> negatives. The trick seems to be to scan them as color
> POSITIVES (the setting is called "positive
> transparencies," not color negatives and then to
> invert them. Microtek in Japan suggested this to me
> when I was frustrated and disappointed with my
> results, and really works. Makes a world of
> difference.
>
> Most of the later material on my pinhole site (you can
> ue the URL below if interested) was done this way
> (some of the earlier stuff was done with a Minolta
> Quickscan 35, which gave very nice results, but was
> limited to 35mm). Underexposed negatives give this and
> any scanner their toughest time, but with most
> negatives I have been quite pleased. Most of the stuff
> on the site is 4x6.5CM negatives. Obviously, the
> bigger the better, but quite a few of these are 35mm
> as well.
>
> http://www.sonic.net/~talcroft/PinholeSite/
>
> Colin
>
> Hope this helps
>
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Received on Mon Feb 26 10:44:22 2001