Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan If you go into Vuescan and then into 'Color' about half way down on the right hand side you have 'Brightness' and by increasing that to 1.3 or 1.4 you increase the exposure and may well get a better scan. You will obviously have to play depending on the density of you transparency, but I find this works very well for all my slides. Hope this helps solve your problem - the bill will be in the post ;>) Regards Gerry www.gwpics.com >From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] Re: Vuescan (WAS: Scanning the Wild Kodachrome) >Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:42:46 +0100 > >Hi Gerry, > >I switched to Vuescan mainly because of its better performance with >Kodachrome >(I have a Nikon LS-2000 and used Nikon Scan before). However, I have the >impression that the newest versions of Vuescan (since 7.2.whatever) have >more >difficulty coping with dense (i.e. slightly underexposed) Kodachrome slides >than >was the case with earlier versions of Vuescan. If you have any tips for me, >I >would greatly appreciate them. > >Nathan > >Gerry Walden wrote: > > > Peter > > > > I use a lot of Kodachrome (mainly 64) and the only program that I have >ever > > found that scans it successfully is Ed Hamricks Vuescan software. Once >you > > find your way around the software you will find that it has a special > > Kodachrome setting which seems to do the job just fine. It also has the > > advantage that you can scan Kodachrome with dust filters if your scanner >has > > them. You can download a trial copy and order through www.hamrick.com. > > > > Gerry > > www.gwpics.com > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html