Digital BW, The Print

howg2211 wrote:
> I am just starting to try my hand at black and white digital imaging
> and am actually starting with a Holga and a pinhole camera using Kodak
> Tri-X.  I recently purchased an Epson V700 scanner and Vuescan
> software.  Looking around the internet, the general advice seemed to
> be to scan black and white negatives as if they were color images and
> then convert to grayscale afterwards.  I do notice that Vuescan has a
> scan black and white negative as an option.  Since this is Vuescan and
> not some prepackaged scanning software I was wondering how folks here
> recommend doing this with Vuescan (I realize this isn't a Vuescan
> forum but figure there are lots of people here using it with a lot of
> experience)....is it best to scan as a color slide or a color negative
> and convert to grayscale or will the Vuescan scan as black and white
> negative give the best results (ie, has Vuescan taken all this into
> account and will setting the source as black and white negative give
> me the best results)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Howard
>   

Why guess when you can know? Scan the same negative in different ways 
and compare. What works for someone else won't necessarily work for you. 
And scanning isn't automatic. The only way to get good at it is to scan, 
and scan, and scan. So you can kill two birds with one stone as it were. 
Scan and scan and scan. It's the only way to learn what the different 
settings mean, and what they do, for your film. I'm serious.
--
Bruce Watson






















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