Digital BW, The Print

Hello Julian,

I don' undestand why should I scan a grayscale image in RGB mode? I do
it in 16bit mode always and never use channel mixer. This is not about
the most accurate data but inconvenience - I save time and RAM by using
the canned profiles instead channel mixer (an additive step) which is
"linear" and grayscale mode. My point was more about misinformation.

Regards,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Thomas [mailto:julianthomas@...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] SilverFast Ai 6 question
> 
> 
> Loris, I know we've butted heads (in the nicest possible way 
> <g>) over Si before, but don't you find that for BW the best 
> way to scan is as a 48bit RGB 'raw' file and then do all the 
> neg inversion and stuff manually in PS using chanel mixer? I 
> use the canned profiles for colour but for BW 'image' capture 
> (as it is called in Vuescan) gives you the most accurate data IMO.
> 
> Julian