Scanning C41 B&W film with Nikon LS4000

I want to shoot my cousins wedding and plan to print using MIS

Hextones. Does Nikon Coolscan 4000 scan the Kodak T400CN or Ilford

XP2 properly? Should I scan it grayscale or scan it color and

desaturate in Photoshop?

 

Thank you very much

 

 

Regards

 

Sunil

The LS4000 scans XP2 and TCN400 beautifully. Scan in color and desaturate in PS. Use the ICE functionality of the scanner to remove scratches and dirt.

 

You'll love this combo. I found that XP2 scans a LOT BETTER than TCN400 (presumably, because the XP2 doesn't have the orange mask). Haven't used hextones so I cannot comment on that.

To the people who do: Why scan in color? What do you do if not desaturate, and how does it improve the result?

<i>Should I scan it grayscale or scan it color and desaturate in Photoshop?</i><p> A classic photo.net forum question! Assuming you have the scanner and you are not asking a veiled shopping question about the scanner, you have all the tools to test this question for free <b>and</b> at no cost to you.

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Scan it both ways and see what looks best on your screen, the empirical results will be there for you to judge. Not much more to say than that.

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That said, I use VueScan, as you should too. I set my image setting to 'image' rather than slide or neg, and capture the negative black and white image. I then convert it in PS to a positive. This might be harder wtih films with an organe mask. But, you can play around all you want and in 15 minutes have a range of sample to compare on your screen.

Emre,

 

The perceived wisdom on RGB scanning of B&W negs is that it reduces noise. The scanner will combine the signal from all three channels to give a cleaner image than if only one channel is used (green I think?). I haven't confirmed this for myself - I blindly follow the advice that I read somewhere and routinely scan monochromes in RGB.

 

Regards,

 

Graeme