Digital BW, The Print

I can get much better black and white photos from converted color images
using photoshop's channel mixer. Of this, there is NO doubt. I shoot
everything in color now, and convert.

Jerry

> 
> No scanner made today can equal it for B&W, period.  

That's your opinion, austin, not mine.

The Leaf scans B&W AS
> B&W, not as RGB...converted.  All new scanners scan B&W as RGB and convert
> it...
And give you much nicer black and white images as well!!
't it take over an hour and a half to scan a 35mm
> > slide?
> 
> Possibly a color slide, but it scans 6x6 B&W in 4 minutes or less.
> 
> > The one Monarch Photo in Fargo had took that long and weighed
> > about that much. He didn't have it long, too unproductive. Too time
> > consuming. etc.  But nice quality!
> 
> Actually, it is the most prolific bureau scanner of all time...though the
> bureaus have been moving to newer scanners...so it isn't that unproductive.
> You just have to know how to use it, and keep the bulb calibrated so your
> exposure times are not excessive.  Scan time is very deterministic...number
> of lines x (exposure time + line overhead) plain and simple.
> 
> But, for me, it's simply great, and as I've said, NO scanner can equal it
> for B&W.

Doubtful, I'm sure dozens of scanners could equal a 10 year old scanner!!

Jerry