Digital BW, The Print

The BW Pro plugin is from the imaging factory.
http://www.theimagingfactory.com/

I don't believe that scanning BW film as color would benefit from either this plug or the channel mixer given that the RGB channels would be identical (unless there is higher scanner sensitivity on one of the channels)
That said, I shoot all color neg, scan as color neg and use the plug to convert to grayscale. The advantage here is that the color neg, when converted to grayscale can give the effect of shooting BW film with a filter. This is filtration in post-processing rather than while shooting. I used to shoot BW and carried loads of filters (red, green, blue, yellow, etc). The color neg has eliminated that.
Stan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Kobrin 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:08 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Convert to B&W plugins


  I scan b&W film as color to take full advantage of the Nikon software 
  and it seems to me that even then, converting from rgb to grayscale 
  via the channel mixer provides some degree of control over the 
  process.  However, given that the basic data scanned is only b&w, I 
  can't quite understand why the channel mixer should make a difference 
  when converting from a monochrome rgb scan to grayscale.  I don't 
  think I am imagining it.  Would B&W Pro be worth it in this case?  I 
  think my Nik sharpening plug-in comes from the same company and I am 
  really pleased with it.

  Steve


  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "qdfb" <qdb@b...> wrote:
  > I agree.  I became quite adept with channel mixer, but the 
  advantage 
  > of convert to B&W pro is it's more holistic approach.  It is 
  > certainly not some beginners substitute.  It builds on the power of 
  > PS.  
  > 



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