I too have experienced the same exact problem with my SS4000. I'm
running version 6.4.1. Like you slide scanning is perfectly normal. I
thought it was just me having a setting somewhere out of wack, but the
last few negatives I've scanned were VERY dark - thus requiring the
brightness to be set something like 50 or so. The resulting scan is
useable with a lot of tweeking in Vuescan and Photoshop. The negative
looks pretty well exposed.
Ed - what do you think could be the problem?
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>
> I'm having some trouble with scanning negatives in the lastest Vuescan
> releases, 6.47 and 6.4.8 running under Win98 with a Canoscan FS2710.
>
> When using all default settings, when I preview or use a full scan, the
> images come out black. If I boost the Brightness to 50, they appear to be
> inverted along with a very severe cyan cast on top of the inversion. The
> scans also seem to be excessively noisy or grainy. I have an example at:
>
> http://www.lawair.com/vue/cyan.jpg
>
> Now, if I change the media type from color negative to image and reduce the
> brightness to .2, I get an image that looks normal, but with very little
> saturation.
>
> http://www.lawair.com/vue/image.jpg
>
> Like I said, these scans were made with default settings. The color balance
> is White Point. If I use other color balance settings (auto levels,
> neutral, etc) I will get different color casts like yellow or green.
> Chaning the film type makes a slight difference in the hue and intesity of
> the casts, but no substanive difference. Same with using different color
> spaces.
>
> For reference, I reinstalled Vuescan 6.3.4 (the next most recent version of
> Vuescan that I have) and scanning negatives worked without a hitch. Same
> with using the Canon software to scan negatives. Slide scanning in 6.4.8
> works fine as well.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jeremy I. Caplan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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John Hinkey
Seattle, Washington
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