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RE: [Digital BW] Digital, film, scanning comparisons

2003-05-21 by Austin Franklin

Martin,

> A drum scanner will give you a "monochrome" scan.

Er, how?  I don't know of any, but perhaps there are, that have a ND filter
channel.  PMT scanners use filters just like CCD scanners, it's just that
they use a beam splitter to separate out the channels, and they all three
read from the same beam.

Regards,

Austin

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