Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Scanner Progress......
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Mon Oct 13 07:44:28 2008
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> I just ordered Lightroom 2.  When I get that, I need to check my scanning.
> This image was scanned to TIFF. I still have the opportunity to scan to NEF
> format.   I think LR2 wants RAW files for more image control.  SO if it 
> will
> take the file format, I need to rescan, then tweak.

I'd be interested to hear how it goes. I also scan to TIFF, but then
again, I only scan black and white, so NEF probably wouldn't help me
out much, except if Lightroom can use the file format anyway to an
advantage.

I never upgraded to version two, so maybe this problem is solved, but
Lightroom version 1 is the pits when it comes to retouching dust.
Nikon scanners are cruel when it comes to catching a lot of detail ...
dust and scratches. It seems to work well with dust that gets glued to
a sensor, but scanning usually ends up with a _lot_ of extra work
spotting out dust. In fact, the greatest argument for me, if I were
doing color, for digital is just this: freedom from dust and
scratches. Sure, sensors get dirty too, but nothing like negatives.

Anyway, yesterday, after posting some shots I catalogued the scans
into Lightroom. I had already retouched them with Photoshop, so I
could just play with the "development" tools on my tiffs. No
complaints.

I can understand if Adobe doesn't give the clone brush a high
priority. It's not much of a problem with digital work (by comparison)
and we who scan simply do not represent a particularly important
target group for their software.

But I did think it did a lot better than I remember.

Daniel

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