[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Drasko DRASKOVIC writes: > [snip] > >>> Can this be used : >>> http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-setup-enhancement-doc.html >>> or these setting should be used only for lineart (i.e. commic scans) >>> and not for film negative scans ? >> >> That would give you a black and white (without any gra

[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-24 Thread Bill Phillips
I suspect that the software is expecting the typical orange mask found on color negative film. This would normally be corrected for by injecting a hefty dose of blue. When the negative (with extra blue) is converted to positive, the blue turns orange. I have this scanner, but haven't yet scanned b

[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-24 Thread Drasko DRASKOVIC
Hi Olaf, thanks a lot for clarifications. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I've since gotten a lot more > familiar with iscan and can now confidently say that almost all image > processing with iscan/epkowa is done in the iscan frontend. ?Conversion > of negatives is defi

[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Drasko DRASKOVIC writes: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC > wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am trying to set up my Epson V500 to scan correctly B&W negatives with >> XSane. >> >> I am using Epson Avasys driver (epkowa backend), and with iscan ! >> negative scan seem to be working ver

[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-23 Thread Drasko DRASKOVIC
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to set up my Epson V500 to scan correctly B&W negatives with > XSane. > > I am using Epson Avasys driver (epkowa backend), and with iscan ! > negative scan seem to be working very well. > However, when I am trying t

[sane-devel] Epson V500 Gray negative scan problem

2012-04-23 Thread Drasko DRASKOVIC
Hi all, I am trying to set up my Epson V500 to scan correctly B&W negatives with XSane. I am using Epson Avasys driver (epkowa backend), and with iscan ! negative scan seem to be working very well. However, when I am trying to obtain scan in XSane, scanned quality is really bad. It looks like it h