Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I posted this to the Scan list and received no responses. I'm hoping someone here might have some ideas. I promise most of the slides and negatives I scan are made with Leicas! - -------- Where I work we have a Polaroid SprintScan 35 LE. When I scan slides they are coming out fairly dark and detail is lost in the shadow areas. I can turn up the brightness in the settings, but then the blacks look faded and I am still losing detail. I can restore the blacks in Photoshop, but I still have the feeling something is not right. When we first got the scanner a year or so ago I seem to remember a well exposed slide would need very little adjustment. Now, they all need to be lightened and tinkered with. Negatives don't seem to be affected quite so badly, but the highlights are tending to block up and lose detail. If a negative is dense enough it can be quite difficult to deal with, sometimes impossible, even though it is printable in a conventional darkroom. When the scanner was first installed in the lab, the person running the lab insisted that it be left on all the time. He's gone now and I make sure the scanner is off when not in use. The original bulb had turned pretty dark. I put in a new bulb hoping that would fix my problems, but that helped little if at all. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thanks Michael Bell MBell@mail.utexas.edu