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RE: [Digital BW] Scanning b&w negatives

2004-01-22 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...]
>
> As always, that depends on the scanner.  The red channel is typically, by
> far, the "fuzziest" channel...so minimizing the amount of red in
> the mix can
> in fact give you significantly sharper scans...same with blue, it is
> sometimes more fuzzy than green.

That's not surprising, so if it's true for a particular scanner, I would
hope that the scanner designers would simply use the green channel when
scanning B&W.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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