I don't worry about having to set the value to 1.3 or 1.4 (or 0.9 for that
matter) on a slide that seems properly exposed. It's easy and fast enough to
do. What is bothersome is sometimes getting a slide that requires 2.5 to 3.0
that seems properly exposed, but by the time you get out that far, the
levels are all screwed up. That happens to me once in a while, and when it
does I turn to the scanner manufacturer's software and that seems to do
better. Different software seems to handle different problems better or
worse.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Alexander Drunin
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:08 AM
> To: bjs
> Subject: VueScan Brightness (was:Re: filmscanners: Provia 400F -
> Actually a pretty fine film! It scans well too)
>
>
>
> b> The excessive contrast (especially in the shadows) is mostly a Vuescan
> b> problem. The actual slide contrast is OK as far as I'm
> concerned. Using a
> b> Brightness value of 1.4 in Vuescan produced a much better match to the
> b> slide.
>
> Have somebody made himself comfortable enough with new brightness setting?
> Properly set, it works fine and doesn't wash colours, but it first _should
> be_ properly set!
>
> From my recent experience with LS-30, it really requires 1.3-1.5 to
> avoid black shadows in properly exposed slides. 1.0 may do excellent
> work for some negatives but still be too dark for other batches.
>
> So, sometimes I find myself fighting with mills..
>
> --
> Alex
>
>
