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Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Settings
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Settings
| Doing successive previews, I recently found I couldn't revert to the
| "start over" point. How does one do this?
|
| Dave
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| > My 7.1.3 has a seperate control for Image Brightness and Gamma.
| Image brightness will affect the blacks of the image, Gamma not so
| much.
| >
| > I often leave Black to .01 or so which results in the black edge of
| negs or slide masks going close to 0, I almost always go with Maximum
| and do any cropping later.
| >
| > >> It has - the 'image brightness' setting sets both gamma and
| > >> brightness/contrast according to some fiendish Hamrickian
| scheme. I still
| > >> preferred them as separate parameters, but that's the control
| to twiddle
| > >> with - in practice it works well - to achieve a scan which does
| not clip
| > >> either end of the histogram. You'll also want to set VS white
| point to
| > >> 0.01 and black to 0.0.
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