Hi, Peter;
I have a large amount of black and white negatives (I have a history of
working for small alternative newspapers) that I will eventually get around to
scanning (after I finish with my color film), and have had really great results
so far using my Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. The only drawback: the dust
removal software doesn't work with silver halide-based film, so a can of
compressed air and a desktop lamp nearby (close enough that you can see a
reflected surface from the negatives, so you can see dust specks on the
negatives before scanning) is a really good idea.
Just make sure that you use a scanner that can capture 16 bit greyscale:
you'll just love working with the ~65,000 shades of grey it produces!
I have Power Retouche's "Black and White Studio" loaded into Photoshop as a
plug-in; it is a wonderful program, and very intuitive for photographers. I
often use it for color images too, by changing them into LAB color space and
then editing the luminance channel (as a next-to-last step, before switching
back into RGB color and editing color saturation).
I re-purchased the equipment to develop black and white negatives a few years
ago (started doing that in 1973, at the age of 13) but I haven't gotten around
to playing with that stuff yet. I picked up a film change bag to act as my
darkroom for loading film onto the development reels and into the canister; and
I am assuming that this will work well enough... I certainly hope so, since I
don't really feel like building another darkroom that I probably won't use all
that much.
John M.
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:41:56 -0400
From: "Peter Bell" <peter.bell@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] new dog, old tricks
I've been thinking about developing my black and
white film, and then scanning the negatives. I'm a do-it-yourself kind of
guy, so this appeals to me, along with fueling my nostalgia for the high school
darkroom. Home development also seems to make sense in terms of cost,
as I'd like to keep shooting with OM for a long time to come. Anybody out
there go this route?
John Morton
http://OriginOfWriting.com
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