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

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Subject: [Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Nov 14 23:52:07 2006
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Op 15-nov-06, om 08:47 heeft G Hopkinson het volgende geschreven:

> 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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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again)