Hello! Since I don't need to perform a lot of scans, I am wondering about techniques that may improve scanner performance, even though they may be time intensive.
From what I've read, scanners have the most difficulty in the densest part of a negative. For simplicity, in B&W, that would correspond to the highlights of a scene. Hence, a scanner with high DMax is able to pull more information out of the densest part of a negative (scene highlights) that anothe scanner that has a lower DMax
If I copy a negative in the darkroom to a positive, the densest areas of the negative become inverted to the least dense areas. The scanner should be able to scan these areas of the new positive much easier than in the original negative. Is this correct?
Also, copying a transparency generally results in an increased contrast for the scene. I would imagine that this effect might be ueful in scanning a scene's highlights as well (the densest part of the original negative).
As a result, I was wondering if scanning both a negative and a positive of that negative that had been made in the darkroom and then combining the two scans in photoshop would improve the final digital scan. Best regards.
Mike
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