filmscanners: Re: nikonscan white clipping

2001-10-05 Thread Ralf Schmode
Paul Graham wrote: Just to clarify your technique: what do you mean by: use the auto adjust (which button is that? is it the contrast black/white one?) Hi, Paul, I have summed it up graphically in a JPG picture you'll find at http://schmode.net/nikonscantweak.jpg, accompanied by some

filmscanners: Re: nikonscan white clipping

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Duncan
To extend highlight detail in negatives with NikonScan, use curves. Leave the 255 point alone. You need to bend the curve downward a little at 230 input to approx. 215 output and optionally raise 128 input near to the straight line level (~114). With a gray scale color negative this greatly

filmscanners: Re: nikonscan white clipping

2001-10-04 Thread Ralf Schmode
Mike Duncan schrieb: To extend highlight detail in negatives with NikonScan, use curves. Leave the 255 point alone. You need to bend the curve downward a little at 230 input to approx. 215 output and optionally raise 128 input near to the straight line level (~114). With a gray scale

RE: filmscanners: Re: nikonscan white clipping

2001-10-04 Thread PAUL GRAHAM
Hi Ralf, Just to clarify your technique: what do you mean by: use the auto adjust (which button is that? is it the contrast black/white one?) and what do you have your balck/ white points set to in Preferences? at the default 0.5? otherwise thanks for your technique - its useful also: what