B&W negative scan reversed tones

[OdDoF]

I am trying to scan some black and white negatives on my Epson V700 scanner using Mac OS X 10.7. The resulting pictures are tone reversed, that is, they look like the negatives. I guess there is some setting that is wrong.

For the setting I have "Transparancy", "Negative" and "16 Bit HDR" and TIFF output. If I rather use "16->8 bit" the pictures have the correct tones, but I do not want to limit the files to only 8 bit depth. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[LSI_Moeller]

Dear OdDoF,

16bit HDR is saving the data directly in the file, without any correction. You can edit these files with the program SilverFast HDR. 16bit grayscale is a feature of SilverFast Ai.

Best regards
Artur Möller