Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure how well my monitor is working, so I made a brighter version, same reduced size as the first one. This one is the same as the darker one except for +1.5 exposure compensation in rawtherapee.

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Yesterday I was at the Orlando Heart Institute and parked in the adjacent garage. From the sixth level there is a nice clear view to the north of downtown. The attached image is made up of 11 images covering a bit less than 180 degrees. Nikon 850, 60 mm F2.8 Micro Nikkor lens, 1/250th at f8, ISO 64, hand held. I used rawtherapee to convert to 16 bit Tiff files, then Hugin to make the panorama. It came out 23650 by 5150 pixels and 956 MB in as a 16 bit Tiff. I used rawtherapee to make a jpg, and a reduced size jpg 15000 pixels wide uploaded here.

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Scribus is a free open source page layout program.
It has a learning curve but is quite capable.
I use it on Linux, but it has windows version also.

I have a few hundred negatives that go back to the 70s that I never printed. I recently bought a 60mm f2.8 Micro Nikkor to go on my D90. I wanted to try digitizing some of them so I used the following - admittedly pretty crude - method. I have a copy stand, and mounted the camera on it. Then I put a piece of glass on two coffee cans so it was up off the base. One piece of copy paper on the base below the glass, a second sheet with a 35 negative hole in it to act as a mask. I put the negatives into the holder that came with my Cannon scanner and placed the negatives one at a time over the hole in the mask. I had a couple of small halogen lamps that I pointed at the bottom sheet of paper. Then I took pictures of the negatives. I did it in daylight, using auto focus and getting the whole negative in the frame. I'm sure with a bit more care and some experimenting I could have gotten better results, but this was just a lets see what happens trial. I was pleased with what I got, better results than I got using my scanner on negatives in the past. The negative in question is panatomic x, probably developed in Rodinol which I used a lot of then. It is an FB-111 heading out to the end of runway 16 at Pease AFB in April of 1972 when I was stationed there in the AF. I realize now that I should have done something about the dust, but just looking at the negs I didn't notice it.

The negative image is cropped, but the resolution is still better than what I could get with my scanner. I am only beginning to learn how to use Raw Therapee, but am amazed at how easy it was to make a positive from the negative compared to back when I was doing it in the darkroom. It's not a perfect B&W image, but a lot better than I expected when I first developed the negatives.

I wan't sure where I should post this, but since I'm dealing with a lot of old negatives and the OP was asking about dealing with old negatives I put it here.

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Thank you all:

Ourspolair
Longshadow
Vince68
bobmcculloch
joehel2
photophly
gsmith051
mimbushopper
Blair Shaw Jr.
jerryc41
Earnest Botello
DaveO
wthomson
PAR4DCR
Xmsmn
CPR

for the warm welcome to UHH
SCLovely

I've been interested in photography since the 60s, and spent a couple of co-op
terms from school making gelatin for Kodak film at Eastman Gelatine in
Peabody Massachusetts. I did lots of B&W darkroom stuff on an amateur
basis until I moved to Florida 16 years ago. I use Ubuntu Linux and am a
long time GIMP user. Recently I got the latest GIMP, which is miles
ahead of the one in my Ubuntu release. I also got the latest version of
Rawtherapee, and am beginning to understand it and am amazed at what
it lets me do with RAW files. I have a D90, and feel a wild attack of GAS
coming on that runs far ahead of my budget. I like photographing almost
everything.