Digital BW, The Print

>> What are the advantages of scanning a grayscale neg as a transparency?
>> 
> Stan,
> 
> A B&W neg is a transparency but the term has been co-opted to mean a color
> slide so some confusion.
> 
> Martin


Martin, 

I was always under the impression (possibly mistaken) that "transparency"
was a term used for positives, such as Velvia or Scala. True that a negative
is transparent... I wonder if the use of the term came from the projection
world.

Jon