Digital BW, The Print

Shire,Stanley wrote:

>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 is true of silver grain films...

For chromagenic films, scanning them in RGB (using all three channels) 
will provide a benefit depending upon how the scanner's firmware 
normally does a B&W scan...

If the scanner in B&W mode simply selects one channel, and RGB scan is 
preferable.. However, some scanners, the SS4000 for example,  still 
actually do a 3 channel scan and balance the channels in firmware before 
outputting, as I understand it.  In such a case, any advannatge to 
scaanning ANY emulsion as a full-on RGB scan is likely to be minor.
Keith

 

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