Scanning B&W with Vuescan - skill me up
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:40 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
I thought I'd throw this open to the floor. I've shot and developed a few sheets of FP4+ which I acquired with a camera. Never really shot proper B&W before.
Anyway, I've come to scanning them. So just wondering how people go about scanning mono these days?
My current E6 scanning workflow is pretty standard - scan in vuescan with the 4990, no adjustments, and output a "raw" (in inverted commas...) tiff file with a colour profile for velvia embedded (which I've previously created from a faust IT8 target), and then do all the work on the scan in some other software, like photoshop/gimp or these days Aperture. Obviously I can bin the colour management step for mono, but anything else I need to be aware of - is outputting from Vuescan in 48bit still advisable? I've also turned off ICE as its not supposed to work with monochrome film. Any other tips? Is leaving the levels and/or black and white points till "post" rather than setting in the Vuescan still the way to go?
Sorry if any of this is a daft question. After shooting exclusively colour transparency for years, the fact that the light things are dark and the dark things are light is kinda blowing my mind a bit. Its like driving in a mirror.
Anyway, I've come to scanning them. So just wondering how people go about scanning mono these days?
My current E6 scanning workflow is pretty standard - scan in vuescan with the 4990, no adjustments, and output a "raw" (in inverted commas...) tiff file with a colour profile for velvia embedded (which I've previously created from a faust IT8 target), and then do all the work on the scan in some other software, like photoshop/gimp or these days Aperture. Obviously I can bin the colour management step for mono, but anything else I need to be aware of - is outputting from Vuescan in 48bit still advisable? I've also turned off ICE as its not supposed to work with monochrome film. Any other tips? Is leaving the levels and/or black and white points till "post" rather than setting in the Vuescan still the way to go?
Sorry if any of this is a daft question. After shooting exclusively colour transparency for years, the fact that the light things are dark and the dark things are light is kinda blowing my mind a bit. Its like driving in a mirror.