At 04:57 -0400 14/7/01, Dave Buyens wrote:
>For black & white film that is very dense, there is something called
>farmer's reducer that chemically washes some of the denseness from the film.
Farmer's removes silver, won't do anything for dyes. It has a short
shelf life once mixed, can cause irregular stains, needs practice &
experimenting with dilution & is mildly toxic too.
You may be able to squeeze a bit more from the negs by turning up the
brightness of the light in your LS2000. Sometimes it's best to do two
scans, one at normal light level & one at bright & then paint one
into the other.
David Hoffman
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