RE: filmscanners: Re: Nikonscan v VueScan

["Jawed Ashraf" <Jawed@cupidity.force9.co.uk>]

Oh I agree.  It is a real struggle for me to get anything I'm happy with.
And as I said before, it isn't merely about "contrast" but about tonality.
Setting Color|white point and Gamma is equivalent, in Photoshop terms, to
using Auto Levels and the grey dropper.  Those are techniques I gave up long
ago, as they're quite inadequate.  Using these techniques, in my view,
breaks an image such that recovering it with post-production in Photoshop is
difficult and counter-productive.

I just want to emphasise this is a "taste" thing, though.

Jawed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of EdHamrick@aol.com
> Sent: 22 November 2001 15:32
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: Nikonscan v VueScan
>
>
> In a message dated 11/22/2001 5:02:06 AM EST, Jawed@cupidity.force9.co.uk
> writes:
>
> > I'd just like to encourage some peeps not to think forensically about
> >  dynamic range when they're scanning.
>
> It's not hard to make VueScan produce very, very contrasty results.
> Just experiment with "Color|White point (%)" and "Color|Gamma".
> Increase the former and decrease the latter to achive this.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick
>