Digital BW, The Print

On 22/01/2010 frankg_photo wrote:
> Since there is no col info in the neg, I wonder what difference there 
> could be in any of the channels. Therefore why RGB vs Greyscale?

CCD noise varies between colour channels. Blue is usually worst.

It will do no harm to scan as RGB and, if necessary or worthwhile, 
postpone the decision about which channel to use (or a blend of all 3) 
until later. The only cost is disk space.

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Regards
Tony Sleep