Originally Posted by
Henry Ambrose
There is nothing to profile for black and white film - saving curves as David Goldfarb wrote is helpful. You can save a curve in Fotolook (if I remember correctly) or in Photoshop. Make a scan, apply a curve that looks like what you want and save it. Next time you scan a similar negative choose that curve again. You'll be close.
If you want to scan color transparencies and get "accurate" color in your scan then a color profile will do that for you. If you're not scanning color positive a color profile will not help you.
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