Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/16

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Subject: Re: scanning
From: nhunter1@mindspring.com (Nick Hunter)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:52:51 -0500 (EST)

>you might
>be able to use an exposure setting in the scanner software to tell it to
>go >ahead and wash out the highlights and look into the shadows. If the
>driver and >hardware let you do this, then you could make two scans, one
>for the highlights >and one for the shadows, and combine them in a
>complicated way in Photoshop.

PMFJI but you've raised an issue I have been attempting to research without
much success. Does anyone know if the Minolta Quickscan, or any other 35mm
film scanner for Mac under $1000 or so, can do this? I mean adjust the
dynamic range of the scanner to match variations in negative/slide density,
or scan highlight or shadow only? No one on the scanner list knew, but the
LUG is much more well attended (an understatement)

Nick