Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon" <vze249jf@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 924


> >> 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,

In photography that is generally true. However, scanning software always has
two basic choices. Is the material to be scanned reflective or transmissive?
With Silverfast the first choice is Transparency or Reflective and the
second choice then is Positive or Negative.

Terms tend to take on slightly different connotations in different fields.

Martin