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Re: filmscanners: Scan Dual II on Mac platform
on 2/25/01 3:21 AM, Arthur Entlich at artistic@ampsc.com wrote:
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> Berry Ives wrote:
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>> on 2/24/01 9:00 AM, Tony Sleep at TonySleep@halftone.co.uk wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:08:18 -0700 Berry Ives (yvesberia@earthlink.net)
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 4. I had a lot of trouble trying to get neutral gray in the background
>>>> out-of-focus area of one image (Fuji S400). I ended up accepting some
>>>> magenta surrounding the darker grays that came out okay, and then around
>>>> the
>>>> magentas I had subtle halos of cyan. ...
> 1) scan a gray scale or some gray patches in RGB mode, and see if they
> shift to tinted tones. You have to scan in color mode, or the driver
> will simply return only gray scale data to your monitor and you won't be
> able to tell anything.
>
> 2) Take a black and white neg and mount it in a slide mount and scan as
> a color slide, or if your scanner software allows, scan a frame from a
> black and white neg strip and scan it as a color slide strip.
>
> Art
>
Thanks. I'll try to do the tests soon.
-Berry
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