TRY the scanner software from www.hamrick.com
pretty slick, you can sleelct film type and it does adjust based on the film
base, ect
At 06:36 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I have some Supra scans too, but I made these a while back, before I learned
>not to trust my HP scanner software to make color/contrast/brightness
>adjustments automatically. At the same time I went to full manual
>adjustment (in Picture Windows Pro 3.0 using 48-bit TWAIN to get 36-bit 2400
>dpi scans), I also started noticing HOW different each film base and its
>particular color slant was (Konica Impressa, while fine grained, appears
>more blue-cast, and not very saturated on the yellow/red). When I went
>manual, and started noticing the differences, I also started keeping track
>of scans by roll type, since each type of film pretty much needed its own
>set of adjustments. The Superia 400 always seemed to need a LOT of
>yellow/orange reduction under outdoor night lighting. What is really
>strange, is that after I get it adjusted, then convert to 24-bit for saving
>as a jpeg, and drop the gamma from 2.22 to 1.4, the image will "green out"
>in highlight areas surrounding bright incandescent lights. That may be
>software, or maybe just the edits I made, but it ruins some pictures on
>Superia 400 to adjust the blue channel, then change the gamma for printing
>or web presentation. I like my Super HG 1600 better in this regard, as the
>"green" out never happens. The slight yellow shift from incandescents at
>night is tolerable on HG1600 without adjustment, so when gamma adjusting the
>image, it saturates around the lights in pure white, not hideous green.
>
>So, while I have Supra scans sitting around on my hard disk, I don't know
>which are which anymore (without digging through 15 boxes of negs to find
>the originals). My recollection is that they are pretty much as nice
>scanned as they are printed.
>
>Once I get my 4000 dpi Nikon, I'll rescan the Supras and report to the list.
>
>Cheers,
>Gerald
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Scanning Fuji Superia 400?
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>> In a message dated 2/26/01 3:04:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>> writes:
>>
>> <<
>> What are other's actual experiences and opinions with scanning various
>35mm
>> print films?
>>
>> Cheers, >>
>>
>> But... but you didn't report on the SUPRA 100, a film Shutterbug Magazine
>> just recently raved about.
>>
>> Mafud
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