Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/14

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Subject: [Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Nov 14 23:48:04 2006

Alastair you are making progress. If you have altered offsets etc, it's not 
a bad idea to reset to factory defaults and start again.
Reduce the variables. Regarding the Nikon Software vs Vuescan, the Vuescan 
is definitely faster and has more features. I don't think
either interface is very intuitive. With Vuescan you can set the preview 
resolution to the full scan resolution, make your
adjustments and then when you press scan it just saves rather than scans 
again. Batch scanning is also simpler. Perversely, I have
gone back to the Nikon software for black and white. The big histogram is 
easy to adjust in every colour channel. I can't quite
figure out the histogram adjustments in the Vuescan.

Also, I guess you know that you can't use digital ICE or infrared clean with 
b&w.  If you'd like some screen grabs of my
suggestions, drop me a line? I think Mehrdad has suggestions too?
Sorry I missed you on Skype.
Now here, IMHO is the best possible advice for a b&w scanning guy with a 
Nikon scanner.

Tina mentioned a while back a new book that she got. I got it from Amazon 
and it is marvellous.
Here is the title.
"Black & White Photography Techniques with Adobe Photoshop" Amherst Media. 
The author is Maurice Hamilton. The best part is that he
uses the Nikon software to show every step of his method of producing the 
best quality scan and black and white image. I highly
recommend this book. Let's know how you go. I know there are a bunch of LUG 
folk using these scanners. Tina and Mehrdad, for
example.

Maybe scanning would be a good FAQ subject. Someone will tell me now its all 
been done before!
Cheers
Hoppy 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Alastair Firkin
Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:46
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again

Thanks Richard I was looking under the crop tab. Now to try scanning  
and come up with the next set of problems ;-)

Cheers
On 15/11/2006, at 17:20, Richard wrote:

> Alastair, Frame Offset on the Input tab. Try clicking it couple  
> times to get a value of around 3.87 or so... Sometimes I use up to  
> 5 if there is fair amount of empty space. High quality scan is  
> pretty easy. I use Vuescan with both NikonScan and the Minolta 5400  
> with nary a problem on B&W (Neopan 400/1600, Tri-X, ...)
>
> At 10:27 PM 11/14/2006, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>>> Problem one: When I put the film in the scanner, it advances but  
>>>> not
>>>> far enough, so that the preview includes too much blank air and
>>>> therefore the scan is incomplete. With the Nikon software I could
>>>> manually adjust the starting position for the preview, but I cannot
>>>> find it in VueScan.
>>>>
>>>> My litany of other problems are mainly to do with what settings to
>> use to get a really high quality scan, but we can come to those if I
>> could align the negative with the preview.
>>
>> Cheers and TIA
>>
>> Alastair
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,  
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
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