Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks Philippe. I saw this when I was reviewing the Vuescan documents. It all sounds easy ;-) and I know I'm a bit of a wimp, but somehow I still can't decide what settings to use. Colour space etc is a space I don't really understand: well I'll keep reading Cheers On 15/11/2006, at 18:51, Philippe Orlent wrote: > http://www.scantips.com/ ? > > > > > > > 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) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information