For my film photography, I develop all my black and white film negatives with traditional darkroom chemistry. If a print is required, the negative is scanned and outputted as a digital print on archival fine art photographic paper. When I …
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VueScan Scanning Black & White Video Tutorial
This mini set of VueScan black and white scanning videos are designed to help those who use VueScan for scanning black and white negatives. My analog film photography is based around the hybrid workflow. I capture the image on traditional …
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VueScan Blocked Shadows When scanning negatives especially black and white negatives I am always aiming to produce a scan which has no clipped blacks or whites. Providing the negative has received adequate exposure for the low values, it should contain …
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With most scanning software including VueScan Pro, we have a tendency to think the highest resolution value is the best. This all depends on what we are going to do with the final output. Scanning a film negative at 6400 …
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The SilverFast Black and White Scanning Workflow After spending many hours learning how to get the most from the analog to digital conversion form the equipment I have, I thought it would be a good idea to share this information via a …
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