Actually this is what I experienced: B&W film (TMax 100 or 400, don't
remember), auto-exposure, defaults settings: the histogram of the raw file
had almost nothing in the lower half. I rescanned with manual exposure and
got it right, after a couple of trials... I don't remember the exact version
of Vuescan I'm using (I'm in the office, now), but I downloaded it less than
a month ago.
Thanks, Alex
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: venerd́ 20 luglio 2001 17.42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan gripes
In a message dated 7/20/2001 9:50:04 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Me too. Having a LS-30 I badly need Vuescan as it's the only way to
extract
> 10 bits rather than 8, and it's really a waste of time having to make a
real
> scan to check if the exposure is correct (no clipping at the high and low
> ends), rather than simply looking at the histogram after the preview. Or
am
> I missing something?
Why would you need to check to see if the auto exposure is correct?
Has anyone ever seen a case where the "Device|Auto exposure"
option doesn't work optimally?
It's fairly conservative, and there shouldn't be many pixels in the
raw scan file that are above 95% of white.
The clipping of the cropped file is controlled by the
"Color|White point (%)" and "Color|Black point (%)"
options. Is there a problem with one of these options?
Regards,
Ed Hamrick
