how to scan b/w positive film

[pierods]

What are the correct settings to scan b/w positive film, fomapan r100?

My scanner is a coolscan V ED, nikon software (nikon scan or whatever came with the scanner).

It is a real beauty to see, I want to share the emotion.

 

[keithwms]

Did you scan it as a transparency and that didn't work?

 

[pierods]

Did you scan it as a transparency and that didn't work?

Actually it did work, but I was wondering if scanning as a color positive would give better results - how do you look at a channel at a time in photoshop?

 

[keithwms]

It may or may not be good to scan as a colour positive, that you will have to determine yourself. The gain may not be worth the extra filesize (in most cases it is not, in my opinion, but I have only worked with agfa scala, not with your Foma...)

Go ahead and scan to colour, 8 or 16 bit per channel or whatever. Then open up in photoshop, and go to Image/adjustments/channel mixer....

You can work on each channel separately or together. Working on the channels separately can be useful if you note that noise/grain is more evident in one channel. This is often done, for example, with b&w negs developed in staining developers.

 

[pierods]

thanks!