Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, As Don wrote, with high-end equipment you will be able to get something. I suggest that if the image is really important to you, let s-Color have a crack at it with their mega-thousand-Euro equipment, and see what they get out of the slide. Nathan animal wrote: > > So there would be no use in having something scanned on a state of the art > machine since there is nothing there to scan? > > Hi Simon, > > > > I don't know which scanner you have, but my experience with my Nikon LS > > 2000 is that underexposed (i.e. dark) Scala is the most difficult film > > for the scanner to deal with. In general, I find that this scanner likes > > slides that are on the "thin" side, i.e. somewhat more exposure than one > > would ordinarily want. The problem is especially acute with Scala. I am > > pretty sure you get the same issue with other film scanners, and I am > > afraid there is not much you can do about it. > > > > Nathan > > > > animal wrote: > > > > > > Hello, some time ago i scanned a few i had taken at night on Agfa Scala > > > slide film > > > The slides looked dark but ok on the lighttable but i had a hard time > > > scanning them. > > > Remember that i increased the scanners brightness in order to get some > > > volume on the histogram; > > > producing artifacts like the ghost image of the staircase in this one: > > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-40954.html > > > Would it have gone better if i just left the light normal and modified > the > > > tones after scanning? > > > Can,t try because the film is gone somewhere. > > > Thanks again > > > simon jessurun > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > Nathan Wajsman > > Almere, The Netherlands > > > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > > > http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html > > -- > > 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 - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html