Re: Scanning positive transparencies

Norm Dresner wrote:
I've got a few positive transparencies of pictures I took in the mid '70s -- and haven't been able to find the original negatives. I have no particular memory of ever using B&W reversal film so I'd have to guess that I shot B&W negatives of the B&W negatives and then mounted them in slide mounts.

I'd love to scan them but so far the best I've been able to do with my Nikon ED V (5000) scanner is to do it on the "Kodachrome" setting and I get weird highlights. The other settings produced what I have to call "unacceptable" results.

What CSM1 and Charlie said.

note: B&W reversal film did exist and some people process B&W negatives in a way that makes them reversals ... but you'd remember that!

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