I better keep my Polaroid 1200 ppi for B&W. I have scanned B&W negatives on it 10 years so or back and they were fine.
Roy
The Nikon scanner sees the film grain in B&W as dust and tries to eliminate it from the image. So what’s left is really bad.
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When I first got my LS4000 and tried to scan B&W negatives, it was a struggle but I finally got an image.
Unfortunately, the image was total crap because of the way the scanner and Nikon software actually worked.
I had a nice chat with one of the software developers and he was impressed that I got anything at all.
I forget all the adjustments I went through to get that image. Needless to say, I didn’t spend any more time on B&W film after that and stuck to color only. The Nikon scanner sees the film grain in B&W as dust and tries to eliminate it from the image. So what’s left is really bad.
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The Nikon software does not work well with B&W
