Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, do you have a transparency adapter on the Epson? If you do, and it is plugged in, Vuescan will see the transparency adapter and you can choose it. I don't have Vuescan at home so I can't talk you through it, but if you still have the issue remind me tomorrow, and I'll talk you through it. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: > Mark, help me out here. I scanned some 35mm negs on my old Epson flatbed > several years ago, but have forgotten what software I used. The last time > I tried to scan a strip of 35 negs, I tried VueScan, and it activated the > scanner, but I could never make it give me the option to select a negative, > or convert from a negative to positive image. > > What is the best way to get there? I don't think the Epson software > offers me the negative option, either. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at > rabinergroup.com> > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34 PM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? > > > I think an Epson flat bed is most what we need to connect our previous >> sheet >> film and even medium format existence to our here and now digital internet >> world. >> I think scan a "large" neg on even a less pricey flat bed and run it up >> the >> flagpole on a gallery or website and its going to blow the 35mm stuff >> right >> out of the water. >> Even if it was full frame and shot with Aspherical Apochromatic glass or >> had >> jacked up megapixels. The richness still comes though and the fact that it >> comes from much more real estate. >> Acreage Acreage Acreage. >> The stuff just has more weight. >> The ponderousness of setting up a sheet film shot comes through. >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/> >> >> >> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:45 -0600 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? >>> >>> >>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>> Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an email >>>> to a >>>> friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not going to >>>> be >>>> about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle. >>>> >>> >>> For those rare purposes (of needing a decent digital copy of a film >>> negative) >>> I simply copy it with the 100 mm apo-macro-elmarit on the DMR >>> (or in the case of sheet film - scan it on my epson flat bed >>> though the 11x14 and 12x20 sheet film doesn't fit there either). >>> >>> Regards, >>> George Lottermoser >>> george at imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**imagist<http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >>> more information >>> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA