Re: filmscanners: Adding new film profiles to VueScan

[johnprendergast.freeserve.co.uk]

Have you calibrated ViewScan to your scanner?
Are you embedding the same colour profile into your scan, in Viewscan, as
the space that you are working in, in PS?
Have you played around with the image contrast and brightness controls, in
ViewScan?
I am only saying this because the results that I am getting from ViewScan,
quite literally blow away those that I was getting from the original
software that came with the Minolta Scan Multi.

Regards,
John

----- Original Message -----
From: Collin Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: vendredi 12 janvier 2001 19:02
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Adding new film profiles to VueScan


> Thanks for the suggestions, John.  See some of my comments below.
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, johnprendergast.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
>
> > When I have scanned Portra 400 NC, using the correct setting, the result
is
> > very good indeed, Are you sure you  are using the right colour balance,
i.e.
> > White Balance etc, and also, ensuring that you are cropping down to film
> > only, and not including the surrounding clear film, or holder.
> >     Have your films been correctly exposed and processed ?, I'm not
picking,
> > just looking at every possibility.
>
> I've never tried Portra 400NC so I can't say if I would have the same
> problem with it.  I usually use auto-levels but since I had problems with
> the 160NC, I tried pretty much all the options and they mostly seemed
> worse.  I manually cropped down to the image area before doing the final
> scan and those did not appear substantially different than the preview
> displayed in VueScan (equally ugly).
>
> The film was exposed in daylight with fill flash, mostly using aperture
> priority on a Canon EOS 55 (Elan IIe) with 380EX flash and Sigma 70-200
> EX HSM APO.  I haven't had any exposure problems with this setup.  The
> prints from the film look great.  After much work in Photoshop, I was able
> to balance the scans to look pretty much like the prints.  However, I
> wouldn't like to put that much effort into every scan.
>
> I'll try it again with the new version of VueScan, since it now has more
> exposure options for the Canon FS2710 and also the new brightness/contrast
> control.
>
> Any other tips or experiences from others on scanning Portra 160NC?
>
>
> -Collin
>
>
>