Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:26 PM 2/13/2006, GREG LORENZO wrote: >Are the ballet shots soft? The negs are wicked sharp. The zoom lens I used >for these could be used to cut frozen butter. > >Any idea what the heck I'm doing wrong in the scanning process? > >I don't seem to shoot any of the b&w film on Vuescan's Film Profile List. >Figuring this out prior to scanning the Bluefire negs is not going to be >fun. Lovely images! I am not sure if there is anything wrong with the scanning process. Certainly if you think the scan is soft, then switching software will usually not change that. As for the Film Profile, my experience is that just forget about it. VueScan's "generic color neg" setting seems to work quite well most of the time for my B&W negs. As long as you scan at 16 bits output, you will have a lot of control post processing. It is very easy to spend forever mucking around in Photoshop until things are just perfect, but as far as I can see, these images, especially the 3rd one, is pretty darn perfect already. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)