Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] HP S-20 film scanner
From: "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:54:24 +0100
References: <3A436F2A.374F47D5@flash.netdex.com>

On 22 Dec 00, at 11:01, Dan Cardish wrote:

> The secret to scanning b/w negatives with the HP Photosmart scanner
> (at least for the original, perhaps also for the S-20) is to scan the
> negatives as if they were colour, and then use Image|Adjust|channel
> mixer in Photoshop to convert to monochrome, and then to grayscale. 

Likely a good practice for any desktop scanner. I've used that with 
two different ones - almost like getting a multi-pass scan with one 
go.

In reply to: Message from Oliver Bryk <obryk@flash.netdex.com> ([Leica] HP S-20 film scanner)