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Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:32:20 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1BPnJanOecBqhmTccWc1mhHNwQL3588fd9+DboOM=i0dg@mail.gmail.com> <CB62C25D.1A61E%mark@rabinergroup.com>

It's built into the Silverfast software.  You can scan multiple times for
exposure or you can scan multiple times to reduce noise and grain.  I
always choose the multiple exposures.  Grain is a part of the film that I
don't want to reduce.

Tina

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> So the trick has turned out to be double scanning!?!
> I'd heard a lot of people were doing that.
>
> --
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
>
>
> > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:19:17 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
> >
> > I have a separate computer set up with my Nikon LS5000 which is scanning
> > film every waking hour that I'm here.  So far, I have scanned 33,617 of
> my
> > slides and negatives from Honduras.  I only have about 450,000 to go.
>  Then
> > I get to start on Guatemala.  I'm using Silverfast and scanning
> everything
> > twice at different exposures to get every bit of information I can out of
> > the slides and negatives.  It's all 35mm, no medium or large format, and
> I
> > am pleased with the results with SF and the Nikon scanner.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't miss roll film.
> >> I do miss sheet film. And will do more of it.
> >> I am doubtful I'll have trouble buying some.
> >> There will be at least one small company possibly in Croatia making
> some in
> >> small amounts. But I'll be shooting with it very reservedly. Almost
> every
> >> time the shudder goes off people will end up seeing it. As I'll be
> >> uploading
> >> it. Printing it even.
> >>
> >> I'll even process it myself it tanks or trays or let a pro lab do it.
> >> Maybe it will be C-41 process Color neg. which might get in the end a
> >> monochrome treatment. As if I had shot black and white.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mark R.
> >> 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 18:30:54 -0600
> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Dante Stella wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Considering that most large format film has ceased production, medium
> >> is the
> >>>> new large.
> >>>
> >>> yup - that's why included the smiley.
> >>>
> >>> I haven't even looked for sheet film in over 5 years.
> >>> Still have some in the freezer.
> >>> Don't know if it will ever see "the light."
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> George Lottermoser
> >>> george at imagist.com
> >>> http://www.imagist.com
> >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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