[LargeFormat] Scanning B&W negs in colour
Pam Niedermayer
largeformat@f32.net
Thu Feb 22 19:12:01 2001
You may want to get hold of "Real World Scanning..." by David Blatner,
pretty much considered the best reference/tutorial.
Pam
Clive Warren wrote:
>
> At 10:06 pm -0600 21/2/01, Pam Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >
> >Clive Warren wrote:
> >> ...
> >> I was a little disappointed with the 4x5 B&W neg. scans carried out
> >> so far, but I have only tried a couple so it may be the case that
> >> more experimentation is needed. When the limits of the SilverFast
> >> software is reached then VueScan may be worth a look if the B&W negs
> > > are still unsatisfactory.
> snip
>
> >Yes, definitely keep at it, getting high quality scans is not a
> >trivial effort. If there were any real connection between PS and
> >scanning software, most likely it was simply the 256 number, since 256
> >can be represented in 8 bits, or one word on older pc's. These days
> >words are much longer, of course, but this is the type of thing that
> >could be held over in pursuit of compatibility.
> snip
> Pam
>
> Thanks Pam, will definitely be trying out a few more negs after the
> weekend and see if I can beat the system into submission :-)
>
> Will let you know how it goes....
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> All the best,
>
> Clive Warren http://www.f32.net
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