[filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings

2009-02-28 Thread Arthur Entlich
Both methods (printing and looking) are too subjective for my taste in regard to this issue. I'd really like to see a objective map of the changes. My personal sense is that jpeg is much better than most people give it credit for. It was designed with human vision in mind, so it does more

[filmscanners] More settings questions

2009-02-28 Thread Carlisle Landel
Bunch, OK, the TB drive has been ordered, I'm almost ready to go. A few more setting questions. TIFF file type: The choices are 24, 48 and 64 bit RGBI. Which one do I choose? Use a Vuescan color balance preset, or set to none? Thanks again for the help. Carlisle

[filmscanners] Re: More settings questions

2009-02-28 Thread gary
RGBI would make sense for raw, but I assume you are going do to light IR cleanup. I'd would use neutral. It compensates a bit for the dynamic range of the film. Personally, if I were to do what you are doing, i.e. batch scanning, I would do it raw and RGBI TIFF. But if you just want to save RGB,

[filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings--Thanks!

2009-02-28 Thread John Matturri
Carlisle Landel wrote: Bunch, Wow! The list lives! Thanks to all for the advice. Especiallly, thanks for the reminder that IR filtering doesn't work for Kodachrome. I've got the bulk slide feeder, so the plan is to simply drop a box of slides in and start it up, then go away and drop