Steve writes: > The few other Tri-X pics I've scanned have all > printed okay - must have been an "interesting" > day at the lab .
A local one-hour lab where I work will develop and print B&W in just 60 minutes. They use a machine with high-speed Ilford chemistry to develop B&W in a few minutes. Their printing equipment is matched to the developing equipment, so when they make prints from the developed negatives, it all looks okay; but when I have them develop the film and I try to scan it myself, I get really, really bad results (heavy grain, images way, way too light). I finally started developing my own B&W, given that it's pretty easy, and now I get extremely nice scans--way less grain, and much smoother tones and better distributed luminosities. What a difference! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
