Hi: I work with people that regularly produce overexposed negs. It is possible to get some detail out of them if you have good control of your scanner.
First if you are scanning negatives you must have a transparency or negative scanner. Scanning negs like prints won't work. If you don't have a transparncy adapter contact print the negs and scan the contact print. You will have some loss of detail here - a transparency adapter would work best If you have manual control over the scan parameters you should be able to get something from the scan. The people I work with take a basic scan and load it into photoshop and fiddle with it from photoshop. It can work wonders. If you want to try doing something stricly in the darkroom you could try contact printing the negs onto film again and processing the film so that it is less contrasty. To get a neg you would have to contact print again. This sort of thing is done regularly in alt-processes. There are a variety of methods used. You could likely get an image from your negs in this manner. You could try my ortho film developed in dektol and baking powder - dektol and baking powder make an extremely low contrast developer. If you want to go off the deep end you could try direct positives. Gord On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Benjamin Privitt wrote: > Hi folks, > > This question may have more to do with general darkroom procedure rather > than being specifically pinhole-oriented, but here goes. I have very dense > negatives from a Zero 2000. These are outdoor, full sunlight images on a > variety of films that have lots of detail, and lots of grain. My previous > experiments with filters and high contrast paper have wiped out the images > altogether (which speaks to the experimental stage I'm in with my darkroom > technique, perhaps). And scanning has yielded a grainy white blob where the > exposure was. Does anyone have experience processing high density > negatives, and bringing out more contrast and detail? > > Thanks, > Benjamin > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > --------------------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology [email protected] 112 Science Place http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2 ---------------------------------------------------------
