Re: [Leica] New to scanning, Photoshop, and B&W

["onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>]

Flatbed scanners don't do too well on negatives. My Agfa e50
is great for prints, but you really need a film scanner for negs.
Looking to get the new Nikon soon. How did you get those lines in the
images?

Chris Williams

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Zeanah" <derek@zeanah.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: [Leica] New to scanning, Photoshop, and B&W


> I'm using a not-very-fancy Umax flatbed scanner with a transparent-media
> adapter to scan a sheet of negatives, then I'm picking them apart with
> Photoshop to save as individual files.
>
> Scanned some last night (see http://www.zeanah.com/horseback -- the first
> roll out of my Hexar RF) and as you can see, the scan quality sucks.  I
can
> live with the lines in the scans -- that's a function of the amount of
money
> I spent on the equipment.  What's getting me is trying to make the scans
> look *good* -- contrast primarily.
>
> So, what's the secret?  I tried adjusting levels and got close but there's
> more to this that I'm just not getting.  In the images here, I adjusted
the
> levels for the entire contact sheet scan, then messed with each file (some
> as RGB, some converted to B&W, more fine-tuning of levels on others, etc.)
> without much success.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks.
>