Hello, if you tested vuescan you should give SilverFast a try. It has built-in Negative optimization called Negafix. The concept is similar to vuescan but I find it more intuitive to use.
I have another question regarding the tonal info in color negs. I learnt back in the analogue days that transparencies offer a higher tonal range than negs. And why would the fact that there is a bigger tonal range lead to the conclusion that more contrast needs to be applied? Or am I mixing tonal info and tonal range here? Is tonal info of up to 14 fstops meant in a way as there can be a difference of 14 fstops between the diffuse highlight and the shadows? Thanks in advance to somebody who can explain this to me. Merry Christmas. Jan > >Apologies forgot to put my name on the >bottom....... > > > >Im keen to hear anyone else's experiences with the >following. >3yrs ago I switched from shooting Trannies to >colour neg mainly 160 >nps/npc(35mm) >This was partly due to changes in my work >direction (shooting mainly stock >now) and the fact that I live in deepest Somerset >and e6 is pain/hassle to >get developed. >Recently I started to undertake my own scanning >(minolta 5400 scanner)and >supplying the ridiculous 100mb files to my stock >libraries. >Now I have learnt the hard way that scanning negs >is a pain and Imp >considering going back to shooting Provia 100. >I want to know before doing this if anyone else >has experiences or tips on >scanning negs,I scan in 16bit as a positive and >invert the files in >photoshop and correct the colour balance in >levels.This part is fine except >shadows always seem on the red side plus the >images always seem grainy >especially in the shadows but Im not sure that is >not just down to the file >sizes Im having to scan to or just the side effect >of scanning negatives. >Certainly scanning provia is much less hassle but >I still have a large >archive that needs to be scanned. >Any comments would be interesting. > >Regards, > >Simon > >=============================================================== >GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ >un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for >SALE > > >=============================================================== >GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ >un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > > =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
