[filmscanners] Re: Initial Scan

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

My experience with Insight is that is rarely clips, unless the image is
quite unusual but as long as the histogram fits without clipping within
Insight (even if there is a bit of "extra space" surrounding the
histogram), you know you have captured the info without loss.

Are you finding images that look unclipped in Insight which are showing
up clipped in PS?

As you stated, in PS you are looking at an image which is already
scanned, so it requires a rescanning if there is a clipping problem.

Art

HMSDOC@aol.com wrote:

> Generally, when scanning I have just been letting the scanner software do its
> thing (Polaroid Insight with SS4000+) and importing to Photoshop to adjust
> levels etc....Should I be looking at histograms before 'finishing the scan'
> and working in PS to make sure there is no clipping etc.....I guess this
> breaks down to a few questions:
>
> 1) If you want to look for clipping at the white and black points is it best
> to look at the histogram in the scanner software (which to my eye is a bit
> difficult to read) or in PS after the scan is done and imported (which has
> easier to read histograms but would require a total rescan if there were a
> problem.
>
> 2) If there wer clipping at, say, the white point...what could be done with
> the scanner software to improve that situation and compress the histogram?
>
> 3) Same question as 2, but with the black point being clipped.
>
> Howard


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