Digital BW, The Print

Sandy King's response to my query: 

I am suggesting scanning B&W negatives in RGB, but only if they were 
developed in a pyro staining developer. Negatives developed in 
non-staining developers should be scanned in grayscale as there is no 
advantage to scanning in RGB.

And yes, if memory and file size is not an issue I would recommend 
scanning stained negatives in RGB and then looking at the channels to 
see which one (s) give the best tonal range. In most cases there is 
no advantage over scanning grayscale, but sometimes there is.

Sandy

At 7:43 AM -0700 7/16/07, john kelly wrote:
>Sandy, thanks..
>
>I may be missing something here...
>
>Are you suggesting scan of stained B&W negs as color
>neg or transparency, then reviewing channels?
>
>Do you think this is better than scanning as B&W?
>
>I understand the file size issue, but if memory wasn't
>an issue, would you scan B&W stained negs as B&W or as
>color?
>
>Is there any argument for scanning non-stained B&W
>negs as color?