Digital BW, The Print

Alessandro

I agree with your post, although I tend to use the LAB mode and select to use only the lightness channel.  On an off topic issue, could you email me at simon@sclamb and tell me if you find your 3200 scans to be soft.

Thanks.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alessandro Pardi 
  To: 'DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com' 
  Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:02 AM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] best scanner for b&w


  I get better results with 48bit RGB scanning, picking only one of the three
  channels, for the following two reasons:

  1) Channel noise.
  2) Channel disalignment.

  Typically, although both issues are obviously scanner dependent, one of the
  channels is the best in the noise department, and the three channels are not
  perfectly aligned. Using *any* channel mix will therefore degrade the final
  image, unless you only pick a single channel (i.e. a 100% 0% 0% mix).
  I repeat that you should verify how much your own scanner suffers from these
  problems, but they are visible in both my Canon FS4000 and Epson 3200.

  Alessandro
  -----------------------
  Jerry wrote:

  > I frequently scan my 4X5 100TMAX negatives with an Epson 2450 and 
  > have been pleased with the results.  
  <snip>
  > I have experimented with scanning at 48bit RGB but I see no 
  > difference in my results.  
  <snip>

  > -Jerry


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