Re: Help, Mounted slides to digital

[Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Black and white film scans fine but you have to turn off the infrared dust and scratch removal - it’s the same with Kodachrome which also includes silver.

Tina

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On Dec 22, 2017, at 10:18 PM, James David Schenken <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I first got my LS4000 and tried to scan B&W negatives, it was a struggle but I finally got an image.

Unfortunately, the image was total crap because of the way the scanner and Nikon software actually worked.

I had a nice chat with one of the software developers and he was impressed that I got anything at all.

I forget all the adjustments I went through to get that image.  Needless to say, I didn’t spend any more time on B&W film after that and stuck to color only.  The Nikon scanner sees the film grain in B&W as dust and tries to eliminate it from the image. So what’s left is really bad.

 

 

 

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From: JW Faul
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 5:44 PM
To: PHOTOFORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Help, Mounted slides to digital

 

The Nikon software does not work well with B&W