Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, Thank you, AFAIK Mukti-Exposure and/or Multi Scanning are independent of HDR, at least with my Silverfast I can decide how many multi scans I do (I can go to 16), and also Multi Exposure (I can go to 2 times), I normally use 4 to 8 multi scans and 2 for multi exposure, I'm still in training period... cheers Lluis El 05/01/2012, a las 14:08, Richard Man escribi?: > I don't use Silverfast but my guess is that the "HDR" mode scans the > negative at least twice - once normal, and then once way overexposed > to get > the shadow details, and then it merges them. Digital HDR normally > does +EV, > normal, -EV and merge 3, but I think with B&W neg you can make do > with 2 > exposures.... > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:15 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 >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information