After scanning almost exclusively slides (with my Microtek Artixscan 4000t) , I will begin with my old B&W negatives (several hundreds), mainly Ilford FP4 and HP5, many of them more than 30 years old. A very, very hard "retouching and archiving era" is coming and it will be a pitty if, in the end, I will discover that I must repeat "da capo" ONLY because... my scanning tecnich was faulty.
I intend to: scan at 4000 ppi, gray scale 16 bits; "dynamic range" -- automatic, but all the other tunings in the scanning software (including unsharp mask) disabled; save the raw scans as TIF. I don't intend to "work" the photos in the scanner, but after in Photoshop. As scanning software, I have Microtek ScanWizard Pro, VueScan and SilverFast Ai 5. My experience is only with ScanWizard, that I used for all my slide scans. My main question at this time is if any of the other programs is superior to ScanWizard (just the quality of the "raw" results). But all your help and suggestions for my "scanning phase" would be much appreciated. Best regards, M�rio Teixeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
