Hi all,
I hope today finds most of you in decent spirits.
I have been doing some product and demonstration shots in our small
studio with my old mechanical 35mm camera using 100 asa slide film.
Fuji Sensia II. The spots and floods are supposed to have the blue
UV bulbs in them.
On my light table the slides look okay. Some shots have a brown
"light" haze to them and some don't. If you looked at the 10
slides you could find a few useable ones.
But when I put them into the Nikon LS-30 they come out considerably
out of focus and the brownish "light" is amplified.
Again, on the light table the slides do not look out of focus. In
fact, they look great. The craggy old rotted wood really has a lot
of contrast.
I am using the Nikon Scan driver without the ICE. I have tried
scanning at 400 dpi, 1250 and 2600 dpi. I've tried focusing the
scanner and so forth.
My question is, do film scanners considerably amplify imperfections
in the film that you are scanning?
I can handle the brownish light problem. I believe, most of it is
exposure. I thought using both the light meter in my camera and a
handheld would do it. Now I believe I need to dig out my 18% grey
card. That should give me a far better exposure setting. I am
also going to use another lens. I knew better than to use the one
that I did, but it was convenient.
I need this shot/scan to be as sharp as a tack. It will be our
flagship advertisement brochure going to representatives nation and
probably world wide. (my knees are shaking).
Thank you in advance.
Guy
