Digital BW, The Print

At 02:59 PM 8/24/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>I always scan to BW negative and then use the 'invert' command to get a BW
>view. Using vuescan I get a 100% info scan i.e. no filters in he way and the
>BW conversion is done in PS
>
>Julian
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@...>
>To: <digitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 2:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [Digital BW] B&W Negatives Scanned as Color Transparencies
>
>
>> The scanning software is probably going to be too "helpful" when
>> you're making you're adjustments. I just set the white and black
>> points scanned as positive, then do the rest in Photoshop.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> > I keep seeing suggestions that black and white negatives be scanned
>> > as color transparencies. However, when this is done the negative
>> > appears as a negative on the monitor and it's hard to know what
>> > adjustments to make when you can only see the image as a negative. My
>> > question: if I do the overview and prescan as a negative (so that the
>> > image appears as a positive on the monitor while I'm making
>> > adjustments), and then switch to color transparency mode before the
>> > final scan, will I obtain the advantages of scanning as a color
>> > transparency or to obtain those advantages do I need to be in
>> > transparency mode throughout the scanning process (overview, prescan,
>> > and scan)?
>>
>> --
>> Tim Spragens
>>
>> http://www.borderless-photos.de
>> http://www.borderless-photos.com
>>


The scanner always scans rgb no matter what mode it processes the image in
later. Why scan in transparency mode?  Scan in color neg mode and then
convert to b/w if you don't want the scanner software to do it automatically. 

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