Digital BW, The Print

I always scanned my b&w negatives as b&w in Vuescan. When I tried scanning 
them as color I noticed no difference except the much larger file. OTOH, if 
you go to www.butzi.net and click on the "Articles" section you'll see the 
results of a test done by Paul Butzi. He maintains that it's better to scan 
in RGB, then use Channel Mixer to look at the red, blue, and green channels 
to find the one that looks best and discard the other two. I don't know, the 
differences he sees between the three looked pretty tiny to me even at his 
magnifications. But you can easily try it both ways and see for yourself.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "howg2211" <hgrill1@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Scanning Black and White With Vuescan


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



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