Very dense B&W negatives scans much faster as color negative

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Recently I had a roll of way over-exposed B&W film, because the Canon SureShot 90u II P&S I have uses DX code while the Arista EDU Ultra 200 does not have DX code. So the camera probably default to ISO 100 (or even ISO 25 according to some manuals). And I use Nikon Coolscan V ED with Nikon Scan software on Windows 10.

First two stripes (6 frames each) I scan them as "Negative (Mono)", and it was very very slow to scan each image. And the images were too bright.

Since each frame took so long, I did not finish the entire roll so I paused last night.

Then by accident today I scan them as "Negative (Color)", and the scans were much faster. And the images were quite all right in terms of tonal range.

In both cases, I used automatic settings, and output "greyscale" TIFF files.

Thought quite an interesting "accident", and would hear your experiences as well.
 
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