Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, Someone in another thread was asking about scanning Kodachrome. One Vuescan suggestion that I found somewhere in the past, but can't recall the reference, was to scan slides using the "image" setting, rather than the "slidefilm" setting. It worked for me with Kodachrome slides dating back to 1952. I seem to recall the "scan as positives" suggestion, and I think I used it with Vuescan and my old Dimage Scan Dual II. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] What is Rosetta > Tim, I'm not too sure if this trick works with Vuescan, but when I scan > negatives with my Microtek Scanmaker software, I scan them as positives > and > invert them in Photoshop. In other words, the output of the scan of the > negative is negative. > > It takes LOTS less time per scan, rather than having the scanning software > do the conversion from Neg to Positive. > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) > USA > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> wrote: > >> On Tue 14, Jul'09 at 12:09 PM -0700, H. Ball Arche wrote: >> >>> Hated both of them as being non-intuitive with a steep learning curve. >>> I've been using the Minolta software so long, since 2000, that I can get >>> it >>> to do pretty much what I want. >>> >>> Actually, I don't believe in doing more at the scan step then pulling in >>> to touch each end of the histogram, but then again I don't do much >>> color - >>> don't mess with ICE, and only rarely go for a de-graining. >>> >> >> I'm not going to argue with you about Vuescan as being intuitive or not, >> but I've found it great for B&W film. I don't like it very much for >> color >> scans and flip over to NikonScan for those, but for B&W it's great. I >> also >> don't do much adjusting in the scanning software. In fact, it sound like >> I >> do less than you since I don't even mess with the histogram... >> >> Not saying I'm a master at it, but if you're interested in the process, I >> wrote it up a couple weeks ago. >> >> <http://photo.net/learn/film/scanning/vuescan-black-white> >> >> Tim >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >