[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-25 Thread Roger Krueger
Not sure how it works on a Nikon, but on my Sprintscan 120 Vuescan compensated for the orange mask on color neg by altering exposure times, rather than just twiddling bits, so scanning BW as raw color neg gave me three differently exposed channels to combine as needed. Almost enough to save pushed

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-23 Thread
Thanks to all for their advice. I've never tried a Vuescan raw scan or a positive scan, so I'll be giving those a try. Already, Vuescan is giving me a nice flat scan that I can tweak. Me'thinks I'll be delving deeper into the myriad options Vuescan's provides from here on out. Now I've also got

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-22 Thread Arthur Entlich
One advantage of chromogenic BW film over the silver stuff ;-) is that you can use IR cleaning methods on the scan (dICE, etc). Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been my experience that chromogenic film is even harder to scan since it has an extremely wide latitude. I guess the problem here

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-22 Thread Berry Ives
Hi Art, I use MS Entourage. But I'm guessing it was somehow my mistake, because only the filmscanner emails were missing as far as I know. Bizarre. Berry On 4/22/05 7:19 AM, Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of interest what email client do you use? (I think I want to stay

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
I only get messages very, very sporadically. Is there traffic on this list that I'm missing? I'm desparate for tips on getting better scans of BW film on a Nikon Coolscan V, understanding Nikon's autoexposure vs. what I might do myself and so forth. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
Yes, I actually have purchased a license for Vuescan and haven't given it enough attention, still using NikonScan and the Coolscan V for most of my work. I develop my own BW negs and then scan them (no darkroom). I shoot mostly HP5+ and FP4+, with occasional TMZ. I dev almost exclusively with

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread
I've got the Kodak kit to do positives from BW film, but I haven't got around to using it. I'd like to try the set on Macophot 820C, which is a very fine grain extended red film. Vuescan has a raw option. By raw, I mean really raw, i.e .no correction what so ever. I'd suggest doing a raw scan and

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, if you haven't seen this page, take a look: it's got lots of sample scans. http://www.terrapinphoto.com/jmdavis/ (1) I haven't been so lucky with FP4+, where the highlights are blown routinely even with extremely conservative development, as in HC110 dilution H

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-21 Thread Dieder Bylsma
(3) As I experiment and futz, I wonder exactly what Nikon's auto-exposure is doing to the raw scan results. I can't find any documentation. In my film speed scans, I can see that AE is trying to control the highlights, but I don't know how AE is doing this. Is it *only* the equivalent of a curve

[filmscanners] Re: Oops?

2005-04-20 Thread
I have a different problem. My last two posts never showed up. Berry Ives wrote: When I checked my in box this morning, all of my filmscanner mail for the last 3 months was gone. Perhaps I did something...maybe just losing it, my mind, that is. Anyway, just in case someone expected a response