ColorQuartet scanning tips & profiles question

[sperera]

Hi there, I have a Scanmate Scanview 5000 drum scanner with its ColorQuartet software running on mac OS9 I have hooked up at the moment with SCSI as per the old days!
I have two questions....

1) whats the best way to get the best results from scanning b+w negatives....as I see it I have two options.....use the 'Universal' profile in the programme (the others yield really bad conversions) OR scan as if it were a transparency and then do an invert greyscale.....

2) how the hell do you create a profile for a particular film (again for b+w films such as T-Max 100)

Thanks so much....

 

[Piotr Fracala]

1) whats the best way to get the best results from scanning b+w negatives....as I see it I have two options.....use the 'Universal' profile in the programme (the others yield really bad conversions)

Bad idea. You'll see it after few scans...

OR scan as if it were a transparency and then do an invert greyscale.....

In fact - its the only way, developers included in CQ are USELESS. IMHO, of course

2) how the hell do you create a profile for a particular film (again for b+w films such as T-Max 100)

Waste of time IMHO Scan as positive, then invert in Photoshop.

 

[Bruce Watson]

You'll find more Scanmate users on the Yahoo ScanHi-End group. You perhaps stand a somewhat better chance of getting your CQ specific questions answered there.