Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scanning is NOT my forte ;-) Thanks for the help: I will keep working at it and by the end of tomorrow I hope to be in full b/w swing: There are too many choices in some ways ;-) Cheers On 15/11/2006, at 18:47, G Hopkinson wrote: > 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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information