Scanning Black and White with Silverfast

[nate]

Hi, sorry for missing this conversion earlier. I replied in another thread with the answer to this:

Using Negative Lab Pro with Vuescan RAW DNG scans

Hi @thobias and all - Just an update here: For whatever reason, there doesn’t seem to be a way to have custom DNG profiles for single color-plane files. The DNG spec is always look for 3 or more color planes (for example, R/G/B). This appears to be true even for monochrome digital cameras, like the Leica M10 Monochrome. The profile in Lightroom will always show “Monochrome” with no other options, and the “standard” Adobe tone curve will be built in. That said, I’ve built a preset that will “u…

Basically, the DNG specification doesn’t allow for creating profiles which are only for single color planes (i.e. 16-bit monochrome DNGS). So if you use a 16-bit monochrome DNG, you will notice that the camera profile will never get correctly set to the Negative Lab Pro profile. There is a workaround in the link above, where you use a preset that attempts to linearize the un-profiled monochrome DNG.

Hope that helps!
-Nate