Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I have another question? If I remember correctly, you have your negatives cut to single images and put into slideframes. How do you manage to have the edges in focus with the 5000ED? Any specific brand of slide frames? TIA! All the best from Paris! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> Le 5 janv. 2012 ? 14:11, Tina Manley a ?crit : > Hi, Luis - > > I use the 32 bit HDR but I scan in color, even for B&W. That gives you a > raw file which you can then adjust in LR or PS. I prefer to do all of my > adjustments in LR or PS where you have more control than with the scanning > software. By scanning in 32 bit HDR you get every bit of the information > available in the negative so you use it just like a Raw digital file. > It's true that you get a negative instead of positive, but there are LR > templates that will reserve the curve and give you a positive. > > Hope this helps! > > Tina > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Tina, >> >> I know you are expert with the Silverfast, I've bought recently a Plustek >> film scanner with Silverfast SE, it offers different forms to scan B&W >> negatives: >> >> a) 16->8 bit Gray scale >> >> b) 16 bit HDR Gray Escale >> >> c) 32 bit HDRi Gray Scale >> >> The first one allow manual adjustments on curves, histogramm...etc..., >> I've sate that without any mask of focus the better result is obtained. >> The >> b and c don't allow any manual adjustments but IMO they produce finest >> quality, the c makes really big files if you save it in Tiff, about 100 >> MB!, IMO the b is a good option. What I'm surprised is that b and c scann >> an image in negative and after I shall invert it in PS and do the >> adjustments. >> >> Please let me know your 5 cents about the best system and if my workflow >> is correct... >> >> Thank you very much in advance! >> >> Saludos >> Lluis >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information