Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, Nice photos. Very colorful. Have you ever tried Hamrick's Vuescan on your LS-30? Does multi pass scanning and greatly lowers the noise in those underexposed shadows. Makes it a 12-bit scanner, essentially. Allows you to adjust levels and color balance in 16 bit mode in Photoshop. The interface is pretty simple. Very nice for batch scanning. All for $40. Your images are nice, especially considering the lighting; which as you say can be tricky. I like Nikonscan. I use it half the time, Vuescan the other half. I find Vuescan really handy on chromes. Pushes the limits of the LS-30. Dave - -----Original Message----- From: SonC (Sonny Carter) [mailto:sonc@sonc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:20 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat I shot the final dress rehersal of the University Summer Theater's "Joseph and the Amazing Tecnicolor Dreamcoat" Saturday Night; The director and choreographer agreed, only because I had been at try-outs shooting with my M6, and they had not noticed the noise of the camera. :>D Anyhow, as many of you know, using "available light" at a stage play is risky business, because those lighting techs can change the level right now! I shot with my 28mm Elmarit on the Leica CL, and my 90 tele-elmarit on the M6. I was shooting Superia 800 and scanned with my Nikon Coolscan III, using the 3.1 software. Photoshop work was just to nudge the black level, so the underexposed shadow area would not have that 800 grainy look. Anyhow, here's the site. Hope you enjoy it. There are some tickets left for weekday performances! Dinner and the show is $14. See, it pays to live in a small town sometimes. http://www.SonC.com/joseph/ Regards, SonC http://www.SonC.com