Digital BW, The Print

Howard,

Try both and see what works best for you.

For me, scanning in 16-bit grayscale works the best

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "howg2211" 
<hgrill1@...> 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
>