Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] testing new toys: help
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sun Mar 13 12:36:06 2005
References: <000401c527c4$fe4c3e50$0202a8c0@acer81080ea37f> <3b1852825f024796122b8e0f4410fa4f@ncable.net.au>

FWIW, Vuescan was recommended by many on another forum for
avoiding Nikon Scan's burning out of highlights with B&W film scans. 
Sheesh, this film scanning stuff seems like black magic sometimes, doesn't
it :-)

Alastair Firkin wrote:

> the scans with vuescan are not matching those done with the Nikon 
> software: there seems to be more "burning" out of highlights. I have 
> not really been able to work out why, I"ve set the b/w points to 0 now 
> and was using white balance and neutral. I'm running out of time 
> before I leave for vietnam, so it may have to wait, but if you have 
> any thoughts, do let me know.
>
> Cheers
> On 13/03/2005, at 11:05 PM, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>
>> Alastair
>>
>> Have you tried setting the black and white points to 0? Try setting the
>> colour to neutral or auto levels.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf
>> Of Alastair Firkin
>> Sent: 13 March 2005 03:35
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: [Leica] testing new toys: help
>>
>>
>> I was advised to get vuescan for my Nikon 5000 ED. It is efficient, but
>> I seem to be "clipping" the highlights viz:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album103/PAWextra061
>>
>> anyone know what I should do to correct this?
>>
>> Alastair
>>
>>
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