Hey all,(posted 8410 days ago)I recently asked for opinions on best B&W film/dev combo. Got a lot of useful feedback for that one, so thanks!
Today's more refined question is:
What are your favorite B&W films for film-scanner scanning? What do you develop them in? What do you "really" rate them at? Finally - any worthwhile tips on how to scan them?
Remember that I will never be "wet" printing these photos so anything that would be good for conventional printing need not be considered. I have had very very bad experience thus far with b&w films and film scanners, getting horribly grainy (_not_ "noisy" - black shadows were fine) scans from my negs - even with FP4+, which is supposed to have good grain charactaristics. (I admit I did rate and dev according to manufacturer specs, with rodinal).
I put up a small page showing comparisons/blowups of scans: www.panix.com/~id/photo
Cheers,
Idan