Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 10/21/2006 3:48:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Jlkmmw@... writes:

Richard,
My research and testing showed no advantage to scanning  B&W negs,{Fuji Acros 
645} in 
RGB mode. All it did for me was 3x my  file size. I saw no difference in the 
noise level 
among the RGB channels.  {many say that blue channel is least noise in CCD 
scanners} All 
were  relatively clean. Was told this is due to the CCD cooling system that 
Imacon  uses. 
From what I've seen, no digital image is totally noise free, and the  Imacon 
scans are the 
next best thing to drum  scans.



Julian:
Interesting.... I'm using a Precision  (v. 1) and I noticed  improvements in 
my scans when I started scanning in RGB. I'm not aware of any  sharpening 
problems, and haven't used the process as yet. I'm going to follow  this thread 
carefully, and take a scan through the steps you have described.  Thanks.
 
Richard


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