Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/6/02 Leica Boy wrote: >Many C-41 B&W films (Ilford XP2, Kodak T400CN, Kodak Portra 400 BW) are >scanned as "color negative" film in many of todays film scanners. This is >so the scanner's CCD and software know how to interpolate my film (that's my >understanding at least, if I'm wrong, please correct me accordingly). > >If you try to scan C-41 B&W as 8 or 16 bit Grayscale, the image usually does >not produce what you would expect from a B&W image. If memory serves me >correctly, you'd end up with this horrid looking image that's no where close >to the actual image on the neg. Thanks for this note. I've only shot one roll of C-41 film to this point - it was Ilford XP2 - and I didn't think to try to scan it as color. I just scanned it in my Coolscan 4000 like I do any silver B&W film. It didn't seem to make awful scans. But I'll go back and play, now that I understand that scanning it as a color film might be better. Thanks Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html