[MCN-L] Color to Grayscale Part II

2013-05-01 Thread Marianne Weldon
Thank you for the responses I've received so far. It is very helpful. I have a related question: We have old black and white photography, but now, any new photography that we have taken is in color, mostly digital. All previously existing slides, prints, negatives, etc. have been digitized.

[MCN-L] Color to Grayscale Part II

2013-05-01 Thread dan freidus
With few exceptions, most current digital cameras operate in way that functionally takes a color photo. Producing a black and white original simply means having the camera's little internal processor do the conversion instead of doing it on a computer. Unless storage becomes an issue, retaining

[MCN-L] Job Opening at Minneapolis Institute of Arts

2013-05-01 Thread Douglas Hegley
Hiring: a qualified professional to assist the Director of Technology and the Media and Technology Division in the position of Office Administrator/Project Coordinator. Primary duties include overall office administration, coordination of all media and technology project activities, website

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 1

2013-05-01 Thread Stephen Petegorsky
Marianne - I think that some people scanned black and white images in color so that they could see if one color channel (red, green, or blue) was noisier than another. The idea was that since the original was monochromatic, you could choose the least noisy color channel and discard the others