> In the end I'd like to be able to demonstrate that we have done everything
> we can do to capture the most accurate possible transcription of the
> negative's densities, and that little if anything has been left up to some
> arbitrary conversion routine or algorithm. At the same time I have no desire
> to mix or calculate channels image by image--there are over 30,000 negatives
> in this part of the project and that is just phase 1. Whatever we do for the
> conversion, we have to set it up as an Action or we'll never finish the
> project.
If the primary goal is just archiving as much data as you possibly can, I'd
say keep the scans in color. Printing a negative (well) requires a very
subjective decision making process whether it's done from a computer or an
enlarger, and I don't think you're going to find a satisfactory automated
equivalent to that -at least not one that can be reduced to a Photoshop
action. If you keep all of the RGB data, then you can say you've done
everything you could to preserve the original and let whoever wants to use
that scan decide how to interpret it further down the road. Your storage
space requirements will no doubt triple in the process, but that'll probably
cost less than the number of man-hours that would be spent optimizing each
shot.
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