Digital BW, The Print

Tom,  You will do fine scanning in B&W but you should play around with
various amounts of USM during scanning of the RGB channels. The big
disadvantage of RGB scans is that they are much bigger. The most important
factor to me, is what do you do to the scan with noise filters and USM. The
days of using your grain focuser are over and it's time to get some handle
on which noise reduction path you feel fits you best  and when and where to
apply your USM to generate prints that have the sharpness you want. 

 

Have fun and run some test. You might even use some of your B&W negs that
have good clean non colored Base + Fog areas as well as some that might have
a slight bluish or pinkish color.   

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dana H.
Myers
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:42 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Black & White Scanning

 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tmonego"
<thomas.c.monego@...> wrote:
>
> I'm scanning with an Epson V700 and Epson Scan in Photoshop. The way I
> see it I have 3 choices in how to scan.
> 1. B&W neg film, 16bit greyscale
> 2. B&W neg film 48 bit color scan
> 3. color neg film 48 bit color scan
> In loosly testing these I hav'nt seen a big difference between them, I
> am open to suggestions. 

I'd suggest scanning as B&W neg film, 16-bit greyscale.
You can find several good web tutorials on the topic, but
basically, you probably want to scan to capture as much of
the range of the negative as possible, resulting in what may
be a somewhat flat scan and then adjust it afterwards (saving
the original) for printing.

Cheers,
Dana

 



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