Digital BW, The Print

Personally, I scan in 16bit grayscale, and print in 16bit grayscale.

When you scan a B&W negative in RGB, you pickup the color of the base,
whatever stains there are, etc. But is this information, or just more
data? My experiments convinced me that the extra data is meaningless. Of
course, YMMV, and plenty of people will argue the opposite.

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:29, Cat wrote:

> I would like to know your opinoins about scanning b&w negatives: is 
> there any difference (except file dimension!) between scanning them 
> in colour, using mixer channel and then print, and scanning in b&w 
> mode, convert to rgb and then print? 


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