[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-12 Thread Dave King
- Original Message - From: Julian Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan Being endlessly interested in contrast taming, I just tried this but obviously I am missing something

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-09 Thread Arthur Entlich
Just a point about film names. Provia is made in two versions. The standard version is rather grainy (in fact it is only made in the 400 ISO version now, if I'm not mistaken, having been superseded by Astia in the 100 ISO version, and is the same film as Fujichrome 400 Sensia II.) The fine

[filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan Stan

2002-01-08 Thread S Schwartz
Yes, that's perfect. Thanks. Stan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Unsworth Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan Stan Here's a previous from

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread
Try making 2 scans - one optimized for the highlights and one for the dark area, and then layer them. Maris On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:01:17 -0800 Ken Durling wrote: HI folks - I'm still working away here, improving my understanding and techniques. Since the addition of histograms to Vuescan,

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan Stan

2002-01-07 Thread Julian Robinson
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan Try making 2 scans - one optimized for the highlights and one for the dark area, and then layer them. Maris On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:01:17 -0800 Ken Durling wrote: http

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
. Is that what you meant? Stan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan Try making 2 scans - one optimized

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Durling
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:07:14 -0800, you wrote: I apologize if I'm getting into some else's discussion, but I suggest the following: No apology necessary! All input is welcome. And thanks everyone - this is going to push me into a new sector of the learning curve with PS Elements, as I've

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan Being endlessly interested in contrast taming, I just tried this but obviously I am missing something because I can't get it to work. I certainly don't understand how it works, mostly because I don't know what screen does

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-06 Thread Bernie Ess
Hi Ken, this won´t help you here, but in general if you shot slide to scan it then, you might try out Provia in the future, while being at least as fine grained as Velvia, it is less hard in its contrast and thus keeps more shadow detail. I have seen a Web site (dont have the URL right now, but

[filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-06 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Hi. I posted a query in regard of LS-40 (IV ED) performance for the scanner users, however nobody answered yet. (I even though no LS-40 users on the List yet) Would appreciate if you will give your opinion about this scanner. I mainly care about his true dynamic range for the ability to

[filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-06 Thread Alex Zabrovsky
Ashraf Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan Hi. I posted a query in regard of LS-40 (IV ED) performance for the scanner users, however nobody answered yet. (I even though no LS-40 users on the List yet) Would

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-06 Thread
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[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-05 Thread
In a message dated 1/5/2002 3:36:39 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Needless to say, upon initial scan at the default white and black points of 1, the histograms go off the scale at either end. Leave the black point (%) set at 0, and set white point (%) to 1. Then experiment primarily

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-05 Thread Ken Durling
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:31:15 EST, you wrote: Leave the black point (%) set at 0, and set white point (%) to 1. Then experiment primarily with the Color|Brightness option. This applies effectively a gamma curve, bringing more detail out of dark areas without saturating bright areas. Thank you,

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-05 Thread Ken Durling
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:31:15 EST, you wrote: Leave the black point (%) set at 0, and set white point (%) to 1. Then experiment primarily with the Color|Brightness option. This applies effectively a gamma curve, bringing more detail out of dark areas without saturating bright areas. This is

[filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-05 Thread Alex Zabrovsky
allows multi-pass or multi-sampling ? Regards, Alex Z -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jawed Ashraf Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan Remind us what

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-05 Thread Ken Durling
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:54:39 -, you wrote: Remind us what scanner you have, Ken? I just have a lowly Canon FS2710 Bear in mind that dark bits on Velvia are considered the evil of the filmscanning world - so dark that lots of scanners simply can't see properly! Multi-pass scanning with

[filmscanners] RE: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-04 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Remind us what scanner you have, Ken? Bear in mind that dark bits on Velvia are considered the evil of the filmscanning world - so dark that lots of scanners simply can't see properly! Multi-pass scanning with Vuescan in combination with the Long exposure pass, with my Nikon LS40, didn't