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B&W negative filters

Postby lebiffo » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:25 pm

Apologies if this is a silly question but I am currently imaging some Black and White negative film using Silverfast 8 on my Plustek 120 scanner and I can't seem to find how to action ie. find the set of Black and White filters e.g. Red, Yellow Green and Orange. I am sure I have seen the menu for these settings previously but frustratingly I've lost them now. Can anyone help on this please.

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Re: B&W negative filters

Postby LSI_Ketelhohn » Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:59 pm

Dear customer,

Have you taken a look at the SC2G (Selective Color to Grey) Tool?
It is only shown when you select a greyscale output (e.g. 16 -> 8 Bit).
It replaces the Color Correction tools.

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Re: B&W negative filters

Postby NickJP » Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:16 am

lebiffo wrote:Apologies if this is a silly question but I am currently imaging some Black and White negative film using Silverfast 8 on my Plustek 120 scanner and I can't seem to find how to action ie. find the set of Black and White filters e.g. Red, Yellow Green and Orange.

This isn't going to make any change to the scanned image unless you are scanning a colour original for reduction to B&W. The B&W image has no information to indicate whether a particular tone was red or yellow or green or orange in the original scene, so trying to simulate the action of such a filter on the scanned image won't change the tonality.

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Re: B&W negative filters

Postby LSI_Ketelhohn » Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:10 pm

Scanners always scan in color.
The Selective Color To Grey tool defines how the color channels are being used to create a true B&W image.

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Re: B&W negative filters

Postby lebiffo » Tue Dec 09, 2014 3:41 pm

Thanks for the trouble taken to explain, the replies were very helpful.

Cheers

Roger


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