Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, Thank you very much for your advice, yesterday was a familiar festivity here, today is Epiphany, and this is a big celebration here for the children, yesterday it was the parade and today the presents. I'll come back to you this evening or tomorrow... yhanks again Saludos Lluis El 05/01/2012, a las 19:09, Tina Manley escribi?: > Hi, Luis - > > I answered your e-mail while I was waiting in the dentist's office. > When I > got back home, I checked to be sure how I was scanning. I use the > 48 Bit > HDR Color for scanning everything, even black and white. I set it for > either negative or positive but still have to invert the curve when I > import negatives into LR. I scan at 4000 dpi and end up with a file > about > 120MB. I keep Digital ICE on normal, unless I'm scanning B&W or > Kodachrome. And I use the multiple exposure feature to scan every > slide > twice at different exposures. I believe that is how Silverfast > advises you > to scan to get every bit of the information that is available in the > film. > The scans come out dark and dense, but that's because they are Raw > files > and have to be converted either with Silverfast's HDR program or in > LR or > PS. I tried the HDR program but find I can get just as good results > in LR > and PS and it's a lot easier to use the ones I'm familiar with. > > Hope this helps! Good luck. > > 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.i L >> >> 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