MARK ! There is not much you can do with a really awful shot A remarkable Mark.
-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: May 5, 2020 7:36 PM >Subject: RE: Scanning slides > >I've recently scanned many scores of slides, negatives, and prints from both >my own work and others: some were shot on crap cameras and on slide film that >lost all it's colour after some years of poor storage. Others were more than >100 years old, and in very poor condition. >From my own experience: >I prefer Epson software for 35mm and MF: I found the interface easier to use >and it has most of the adjustment options that VueScan does. >VueScan has a small menu selection of the film used to shoot the original, >Epson only allows choices between slides, and B&W or colour negative types. >VueScan is the only choice, between the two, for APS film, as it finds the >frame borders accurately, whereas the Epson does not. Neither is very good >with the sub-APS formats. >I haven't noticed a lot of difference between scanning emulsion side down or >up, to be honest. With both slides and negatives, I put the shiny side down, >as the texture of the emulsion *might* affect sharpness at high scan >resolutions. >Scan at a resolution high enough to give you a reasonable print capability: >for example, if you want a 10x8 inch print from a 35mm slide, scan at 2400 or >3200 dpi. >All dust and scratch elimination software tends to soften the image scanned: I >prefer to use PS (or software of your choice) for post-process sharpening. The >ICE technology in the Epson software I find useless in that regard. >In post-processing, sharpen first then deal with dust and scratches: if you do >it the other way around, the sharpening will reveal yet more flaws! >Both programs will restore faded colour quite effectively, but may generate a >bad colour cast if the original is really badly faded: slight fading is >recoverable. >There is not much you can do with a really awful shot! > >Hope this helps, > > >John in Brisbane > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric Weir >Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:47 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Scanning slides > > >Emerging from lurking to ask for help. > >A couple days ago I got out a shoebox of slides from a trip to Russia 20 years >ago. A few were shown to the group I traveled with a month or so after we >returned home. Other than that I have done nothing with them. As a result I am >unable to identify many of the subjects and scenes. Nevertheless, some are >interesting, if not good photography. (They were shot with a Pentax K1000 and >a fast 50mm lens, the only lens I took on the trip. Not sure of the film. Best >guess is Fuji Velvia 100.) > >I would like to start scanning a selection of the slides. I have an Epson >Perfection V500 Photo scanner. I have always found the Epson scanning software >difficult. I recently forked over $100 for a VueScan license and have found it >much easier to work with. That said, yesterday I watched a video demonstrating >scanning with SilverFast and was impressed. Among other things, It can >eliminate dust and scratches, do color correction, and scans to a Raw file. >And the price is reasonable. I’d appreciate opinions on SilverFast vs. VueScan > >I have no experience scanning slides. one question is how to orient the slides >in the scanner, i.e., which side of the film should be up and which down. My >slides have the date and frame number on one side and “this side toward >screen.” should that side face up or down on the scanning table? > >Random comments or advice about scanning slides would be welcome too. > >Thanks, >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Eric Weir >Decatur, GA USA >[email protected] > >"Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." > >- Amos Oz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
