Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jeffery, It would be nice to have a good "lesson" included with the scanner, but good manuals seem to be a thing of the distant past. Seems you are supposed to buy your own or wing it. Jeffery Smith writes: > I have a Nikon Cooscan III, and find that slides tend to get a "foggy" > look to them. Negatives with dark objects against a bright sky seem to > get a halo around the dark objects. Nikon really sent no decent > documentation with it, so I've just gutted it out. Mine does allow > previews but they degenerate so much on enlarging them on the screen, > they haven't been useful. > > > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:09:08 +1100, firkin > <firkin@balhpl01.ncable.net.au> wrote: >> Would someone who uses a Nikon Scanner be kind enough to go through their >> set up and work flow with differing slides/negs etc. I am trying to search >> the archive with limited success. >> >> I have bought a Nikon 5000ED scanner, with roll film and slide loaders. So >> far, I've played with slide scanning, using the SF 210. Apart from >> occasional jams etc the results are very good, but scan times seem very >> high. Should I scan at maximal resolution and play with 130meg images >> later >> or is there a way to scan smaller previews quickly and then only hi-res >> the >> scans you want? >> Scanning time seems more of a problem wiht the digital ICE etc, which >> takes >> a long time. At the moment, I'm using ICE for non Kodachrome slides (but >> it >> seems to work with most anyway) and finding a little shadow penetration >> and >> colour correction is very useful: I set ROC to one and DEE to 5. >> >> DEE seems to cause "flareing" on the resultant scans from areas of high >> brightness -- do others find this? >> >> Tips please. >> >> Cheers >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information