scanning B/W negatives gives a ugly result

[manray]

I wanted to change from original nikon soft (not professional enough in the settings to get scans for printing) to Silverfast. Downloaded latest demo to try. But B/W scans are too hard, no details in the shadows and grainy in comparison to nikon soft. Negafix curves w'ont help. I put them to linear. no change. Where is the problem? I changed manually the curve, but still cannot get any detail in the shadows.

[President_LSI]

Problems with Nikon film scanner and NegaFix

Dear user,

general descriptions of problems do not help anyone nor can a helpul analysis be derived from that. I would also recommend to address very special problems directly with our support people or send them directly to me.
In any case, what is needed for an analysis is:

1. Scanner model used
2. Operating System
3. Version of SilverFast
4. Type of film
5. SilverFast Logfile

In addition:
A raw data file of your scan


There could also be a problem with the Nikon Maid, which is the Nikon low-level driver we have to use.
Just quickly submit the required information and we will immediately analyse where the problem lies.

regards

Karl-Heinz Zahorsky
President
LaserSoft Imaging

[LSI_Support]

Dear Manray,
please do NOT use the ICE function when you scan b/w film material !!!
This will spoil your image.

please read in our FAQ section: functionality related problems > Quality issues

there is a FAQ on b/w media.