What is somewhat interesting about this is that of all the CCD scanners on the market (excepting the Leaf, as noted) Nikon is probably best set up to do a real B&W scan. Unlike most which use a triline CCD sensor with a R, G or B color separating filter for each line, the Nikon doesn't use color separating filters on the CCD, but rather uses colored LEDs to produce the separations and a one line sensor (with all but the LS8000)
It seems to me that they could have produced something approaching white light by firing all LEDS at once with a diffuser, and read the neg using the one bare CCD sensor line. I think they would then have a bit more brightness to work from, if required. Art Austin Franklin wrote: >>>I remain disappointed that they state you cannot scan black and >>> >>white as RGB >> >>>positive, even intimating that one would be manipulating a >>> >>lesser quality >> >>>scan in Photoshop than if the scan had been done as a >>> >>monochrome scan. That >> >>What they say is definitely not true. The scanner allows you to set >>the exposures separately and read out the raw CCD data, so all >>limitations they might be thinking of arise from the design of the >>scan software. >> > > Hi Andras and Simon, > > ALL CCD scanners that I know of, with the exception noted in the next > sentence, scan EVERYTHING in RGB, whether you select B&W/Monochrome or not. > The ONLY CCD scanner(s) I know of that scan B&W AS B&W, using a single ND > filter, is the Leafscan 45 and the Leafscan 35. > > So, the point is, you ARE scanning the B&W film in RGB, just the scanner has > it's own "mix" of RGB that it uses to convert internal to the scanner and > then give you the monochrome image. EXACT same thing that PS does when you > convert from RGB to B&W, but in PS, I believe you can change the "mix" of R > G and B. I REALLY wish scanner manufacturers would make their > scanner/software so that you could change the mix there too... > > Personally, I believe the Leaf gives much better B&W tonality than any other > CCD scanner I've ever used or seen. > > Austin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
