Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BTW, most flatbed scanners are very much faster if you scan a negative as a positive, and invert in Photoshop. The software is native positive, and it makes the conversion as you go; Photoshop is far faster than most scanning software at converting. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, do you have a transparency adapter on the Epson? If you do, and it > is plugged in, Vuescan will see the transparency adapter and you can choose > it. I don't have Vuescan at home so I can't talk you through it, but if > you still have the issue remind me tomorrow, and I'll talk you through it. > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at > lighttube.net>wrote: > >> Mark, help me out here. I scanned some 35mm negs on my old Epson flatbed >> several years ago, but have forgotten what software I used. The last time >> I tried to scan a strip of 35 negs, I tried VueScan, and it activated the >> scanner, but I could never make it give me the option to select a >> negative, >> or convert from a negative to positive image. >> >> What is the best way to get there? I don't think the Epson software >> offers me the negative option, either. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at >> rabinergroup.com> >> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? >> >> >> I think an Epson flat bed is most what we need to connect our previous >>> sheet >>> film and even medium format existence to our here and now digital >>> internet >>> world. >>> I think scan a "large" neg on even a less pricey flat bed and run it up >>> the >>> flagpole on a gallery or website and its going to blow the 35mm stuff >>> right >>> out of the water. >>> Even if it was full frame and shot with Aspherical Apochromatic glass or >>> had >>> jacked up megapixels. The richness still comes though and the fact that >>> it >>> comes from much more real estate. >>> Acreage Acreage Acreage. >>> The stuff just has more weight. >>> The ponderousness of setting up a sheet film shot comes through. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark R. >>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/> >>> >>> >>> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:45 -0600 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>>> >>>> Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an >>>>> email to a >>>>> friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not going >>>>> to be >>>>> about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle. >>>>> >>>> >>>> For those rare purposes (of needing a decent digital copy of a film >>>> negative) >>>> I simply copy it with the 100 mm apo-macro-elmarit on the DMR >>>> (or in the case of sheet film - scan it on my epson flat bed >>>> though the 11x14 and 12x20 sheet film doesn't fit there either). >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George Lottermoser >>>> george at imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**imagist<http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See >>>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >>>> more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >>> more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA