Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Vuescan (WAS: Scanning the Wild Kodachrome)
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:18:28 -0700

Nathan,

Under the device tab, check lock exposure, and then experiment with
increasing the RGB exposure.

This increase the ccd exposure and copes with dense negatives (make sure you
are on a newer version)

tim a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Nathan
> Wajsman
> Sent: December 23, 2001 10:56 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Vuescan (WAS: Scanning the Wild Kodachrome)
>
>
> Hi Gerry,
>
> Yes, I am familiar with the Brightness control, but I find that
> if I increase it
> too much, then I get undesireable artifacts. I guess the bottom
> line is that
> scanners simply do not like film that is too dense.
>
> Nathan
>
> Gerry Walden wrote:
>
> > 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
>
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