Digital BW, The Print

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From: "bellis33624" <bellis60@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] B&W Negatives Scanned as Color Transparencies


> 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)?

On a Linotype with the right software it is unlikely that negative scanning
is worse than positive scanning of a negative. There's no reason to go the
transparency route and reverse later on.
Most reports on negatives scanned as positives are related to flaws in the
software.
Isn't there a hardware mode on the Linotype that does a direct B&W scan with
the PMT ?

Ernst