I believe that one of the benefits of SEP for scanned B&W film is that it restores the grain characteristics of the film that are lost during scanning (after all, we are taking irregularly shaped grain and mapping into square pixels.that just ain't right). So if you scan TMAX400, select this profile in SEP. Now open that puppy up in SEP and watch the magic lost in scanning all come back Sometimes, just matching the B&W profile of your film type restores the image perfectly. Invert in PS, select the green channel to convert to monochrome (but leaving the image tagged in aRGB), adjust the endpoints of the histogram with levels, flatten, and save. Scan at 4,000 ppi to prevent grain aliasing (you can always down-sample later). You are much better off scanning as a positive (sharper, better tonal range without clipping) in 16-bit aRGB color mode with 8x multi-sampling. On the Nikon scanners, GS is the worst ICC space you can scan into. SEP does not recognize a file tagged in grayscale.
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