Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, Many thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try immediately. Your comments, made on the LUG several years ago, had me searching for a used Leafscan. They're not easy to come by. The results are impressive, though. I wanted a 45 but settled for the 35. Quality and functionality of the 35 reminds me of my Focomat 1c. If Leica made a scanner, I'm sure it would be something along the lines of the Leafscan. Very nice the way a good scanner and printer can keep the "grain effect" even with faster and finer grained films like D400. My Coolscan did a poor job on maintaining grain, except for N1600. Printing digital output from my Canon G2 is a lot like printing chromogenic b/w prints conventionally. The grain, or lack thereof, makes for a different look. Dave BTW, in order to get things up and operational I traded an extra Compaq for a late model Mac G3. I gave up trying to get a GPIB card for my Intel machines. The Mac came with Photo Elements which can only handle 8 bit images. The Leaf plug in works as long as you don't select the 16 bit option. I just scan using the Mac and then FTP the images over to my Win2K machines. Everything's networked. Not a bad workflow, really. It's nice having a Mac, too. At 12:10 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > The > > Leafscan is slow. But due to it's design it may be the ideal scanner for > > scanning b/w. > >Hi David, > >It can be sped up quite a bit. I scan B&W 6x6 in 4 minutes, which is on par >with current scanners... Go to the exposure menu and check "minimum". The >only reason for using "optimum" is for positives, as the density range of >negatives is far less than positives, and minimum exposure will handle the >negative range with no compromise. > >That should speed up your scan time significantly. > >Regards, > >Austin > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html