Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Scott and thanks Scott McLoughlin writes: > I have a V. The documentation stinks and the preview is > barely usable. The real docs are on a CD, not the booklet > they provide, but the CD docs stink as well. GEM and the > rest of the post processing slows down scans considerably. > > You can setup a canned "Settings" entry with a lower scan res > and crank out a set of smaller files to function like a digital > contact sheet. I do this with B&W negs and batch scanning. > Then devote attention to the frames of interest, make higher > res scans, etc. Do these scan faster: my attempts to reduce resolution etc to speed up scanning seem to fail thus far. I've tried reducing the DPI and the pixel size of the output, but the scan time seems unchanged so I may as well give it the full treatment. > > I recently got Vuescan. Docs are even more minimal, but it > seems to clip highlights less with B&W negs. Also a few areas > of exposure control that are more fine grained. > I was told silverscan might be good, but I'm always loath to spend more till I'm really desperate. > What really bugs me the most is that I don't have a very > clear mental picture of *exactly* what the scanner and > post processing software are doing, and then a completely > "deterministic" degree of control over each step. The > simplistic "how-to" Nikon docs don't help me at all in > this regard. I agree completely. Here's hoping some one has some suggestions ;-) Cheers and thanks