Re: Scanning positive transparencies

In article <9EkYj.13496$JJ4.29535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Browne <alan.browne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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!

As I understand it, *any* B&W film is a "reversal" film; it just takes a
different sort of processing to make that happen. ISTR that the gamma is
a bit wonky, though. Making a standard negative and then a positive from
that helps deal with the gamma issue.

Isaac
.