Here's something I posted a while back. It's not directly relevant, but it
might provide food for thought.
Using a scanner and a single frame of film I dare say it is possible to scan
it differently, twice and combine the results.
Though I have to say, with Vuescan's ability to capture the entire dynamic
range of the film that the scanner is capable of, and output as a 16-bit
file, I'm not sure why combining two images is worth doing. A sequence of
standard curves and/or manipulations of Levels should do the trick.
The Nikon scanners allow you to manipulate the "analog gain", which in
theory allows you to create a 3-frame bracket from one frame of film.
Interested to see the results peeps achieve.
Jawed
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Jawed Ashraf
Sent: 21 November 2001 23:55
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: filmscanners: Merging multiple scans in Photoshop to deal with
very high-contrast scenes
[Digging back in time here...: I know the following isn't really a direct
answer to the question, but I just thought I'd bring this technique to your
attention]
Using this:
http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/DynamicRanger.html
as the basis for the technique, me and Joel Benford (lurker on this list)
set about merging 3 frames into 1 image. We did this on a number of images.
He'd used a tripod to make night photographs and carefully bracketed, with
the intention of merging later.
His HP Photosmart S20+ scanner is no good for this task, as the motorised
film feed during scanning causes misregistration of the images. So we
ended-up using my Primefilm 1800 scanner (you may think this scanner is crap
but it has pixel perfect registration, something I still find quite
astonishing!). I no longer have the Primefilm. Tests with the LS40 show it
does the job equally well.
Instead of using Peter's four control points for the +2EV image, I used two:
255 85
127 70
And instead of using his control points for the -2EV image, I used:
0 172
127 195
The results were very worthwhile. See some samples at:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=240571http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=268265
The hardest part is correcting for any rotational error you introduce by
scanning. You should experiment with the curves, to suit your taste and, I
suppose, the nature of the film used.
Of course, Vuescan does this automatically for a single frame, if your
scanner supports Vuescans "long exposure pass" option.
Jawed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
> Sent: 26 September 2001 00:10
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Merging multiple scans in
> Photoshop to deal with very high-contrast scenes
>
>
> Anthony asked:
> >Has anyone here done any significant work with merging multiple scans to
> >overcome limitations of film in high-contrast scenes?
>
> I've tried it with two layers. It tends to show up the limitations of the
> scanner very quickly. If you have a scanner with a good range, you may
> not have the same issues I did with the LS30. The balance
> between the layers
> had to be very carefully made, or dark noise and banding ruins the image.
>
> Rob
>
>
> Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
> http://wordweb.com
>
>
>
>
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