Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Settings

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

Thanks Maris.  I tried that, but it didn't seem to work in one case.
I'll give it another shot.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. <mlidaka@ameritech.net>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Settings


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> Maris
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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
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> | Doing successive previews, I recently found I couldn't revert to
the
> | "start over" point.  How does one do this?
> |
> | Dave
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | > 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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