Need suggestions on scanning/etc black and white for web viewing.

[tequilabong]

I'm mainly a film person, and shoot all black and white.

Here is my dilemma....I have about 40 rolls of film from a project, and need to get these images on my website. It is medium format black and white film....6x4.5.....

What will be the easiest way to get them in digital format?

I have an Espon 4490 but have never used it to scan. Will that be fine? How long does it take to scan a negative?

I don't need fine quality, just enough to show online.

Thanks.

gordo

www.handcolored66.com

[jd callow]

Owning the scanner you can answer most of your questions yourself. I'd recommend scanning the film in at least 2x the final resolution and I would avoid letting the scanner do any color, contrast, density or sharpening. Do that in PS, I would also scan them in at the highest bit depth and in RGB.