Digital BW, The Print

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Shire,Stanley"
> <sshire@c...> wrote:
> > 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)
> <CLIP>
>
> It depends on the scanner. I scan Tri-x and HP5+ 5x7 negs on a Umax
> Powerlook III using one of the color neg. options and the result is
> three very different channels. It is somehow related to the orange
> mask on color neg. film because I get a different result using the
> Kodak neg. choice or the Agfa neg. etc. choice.
>
> I don't know if other scanners work this way or not but, for me,
> there is different information in each channel.

The RGB channels will never be identical (or %99.99999999999999999999999
etc. almost never) when scanning B&W film in RGB.

Austin