Digital BW, The Print

> I've been scanning my way thru 100+ sheets of 4x5 I shot in the Eastern
> Sierra and Yosemite in October. It's mostly Portra160VC color neg, and
> I've been using the channel mixer to get b&w. Sometimes I've used 100%
> red,and often a a ratio close to what Todd said -- generally to get the
> sky values where I want them.

Hi Richard,

What are you scanning them on?  If it's a CCD scanner, the red channel is by
far the worst of all three...it's typically about twice as fuzzy as the
green.  If you want to try scanning some of your film with my Leaf, which
scans B&W IN B&W (unlike most every other scanner, it does so by using an ND
filter, not scanning in RGB and converting), you're more than welcome to do
so!

Regards,

Austin