Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Klein wrote: > > Here's our own Nathan Wajsman, while giving Katya and me a walking tour of > downtown Zurich last month. > > http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/switzerland/nathanstore.htm > > I need a little help from our resident scanning experts here. Nathan was > wearing dark blue clothing, and it scanned with a lot of noise in the form > of colored speckles. It's harder to see in the little JPG, but in the > original TIFF it's pretty bad. Every time I tried to work on the > brightness curve, the speckles became more visible. > > I'm using Vuescan and a Nikon LS-2000, the film is Kodak Supra 400 > (negative film) shot at 200. I tried multiple sample scanning, "long > exposure pass," and nothing seemed to help. > > This problem looks similar to the "bloom" I've seen in brightly-colored > areas on slides. Is there anything I can do to improve the scan? > > --Peter > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html To me you are getting "thin" looking results. Need to drop the shadows down more, then bring up the highlights... for more contrast and gamma and tonal range. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html