Re: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Matturri" <jmatturr@earthlink.net>
To: "filmscanners@halftone.co.uk" <Filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Supra 400 shadows


| I've been having good results using Supra 400 (SS4000, Vuescan, current
| 7.1.7) except for the noise-like areas in dark parts of the image. At
| times I can partially compensate for this by setting the black point but
| only at the cost of losing shadow detail that at times is needed for the
| image (and often still not really getting an adequately clean shadow
| areas). Any suggestions about how best to deal with this problem?

Keep the shadow detail and deal with it in post-scan processing with
Photoshop or you software of choice.

| If push comes to shove and I really need to use an image with this
| problem can I be more or less confident that a drum scan would solve the
| problem?

I don't know - hopefully someone else can answer.

Maris