Scanning Black and White Negs with a Nikon Coolscan

[Chris_Mitton]

I have a Nikon Coolscan V. Whilst I have had great results with scanning Colour Transparencies, the results achieved form scanning Black and White negs are very disappointing to say the least. The results are very grainy and appear to badly exposed, taking a lot of fiddling around with after scanning to get an acceptable result.

Anybody else had a similar experience?

[DJW]

Well I've just this second stood on my Scanner & smashed the glass...DOH....so I can't answer ;)

[Chris_Mitton]

Well I've just this second stood on my Scanner & smashed the glass...DOH....so I can't answer ;)


That is not the reccommended thing to do with a scanner. :shake:

Hope you get it fixed.

[Gandhi]

Hmmmm,

I've used a coolscan but it was the IV not the V. I never had any problems with it really, even when scanning b&w negs. You do have the nikonscan software set to b&w don't you? Only other things I can think of is that the auto-exposure in the scanner is playing up.

I've scanned plenty of b&w films and have found that they're generally grainier than their colour/transparency counterparts though.

Sorry, not much help but my memory aint so good these days ;)

[DJW]

That is not the reccommended thing to do with a scanner. :shake:

Hope you get it fixed.

It's in the bin....smashed the glass ...DOH. Only a cheapy Canon, so no great loss ;)

[Chris_Mitton]

Hmmmm,

I've used a coolscan but it was the IV not the V. I never had any problems with it really, even when scanning b&w negs. You do have the nikonscan software set to b&w don't you? Only other things I can think of is that the auto-exposure in the scanner is playing up.

I've scanned plenty of b&w films and have found that they're generally grainier than their colour/transparency counterparts though.

Sorry, not much help but my memory aint so good these days ;)


Maybe I just need to play with it a bit more.

Thanks