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Subject: Re: [Leica] Scanning images from Tri-X negatives
From: "Simon Lamb" <s_lamb@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:49:56 +0100
References: <001001bfc3d9$3ce7b180$dd66989e@meditor.demon.co.uk> <4.3.1.2.20000522082504.00b375d0@mail>

Skip

Thanks very much.  I will definitely check it out.

Simon
Amateur efforts at http://www.phoenixdb.co.uk/leica

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Williams" <skipwilliams@pobox.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Scanning images from Tri-X negatives


>
> You might want to try Ed Hamrik's VueScan at
> http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html.  He has presets for B&W negatives from
> different films and densities.
>
> Skip
>
> At 12:26 PM 5/22/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >I am trying to scan images from Tri-X negatives using a Coolscan III LS30
> >and they all come out very overexposed.  I have turned off the colour
> >management and am using the grayscale scanning option.  When I scan Scala
> >slides they are great, it is just the Tri-X negatives.
> >
> >I can adjust the scanner to apply a -EV to the scan process but the scans
> >then look very grainy and I do not particlularly like changing the images
> >too much.  The printed Tri-X images are fine.
> >
> >The tenuous link to Leica is that I have taken the images with my M6!
> >
> >Any ideas on how to do good scans would be welcome.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Simon
>
>

In reply to: Message from "Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk> ([Leica] Re: full finder coverage of the IIIg)
Message from Skip Williams <skipwilliams@pobox.com> (Re: [Leica] Scanning images from Tri-X negatives)