I hope someone out there can help me with a problem I have scanning black
and white negatives.
The first film scanner I bought, a Minolta, a couple of years ago, was
inadequate when it came to recording detail in the dense (highlight) areas
of my negatives. I realized I had to go elsewhere when the only thing a
Minolta tech rep could suggest to solve the problem was to shoot with a
different film. Perhaps they have improved their product since then.
I now have a Polaroid SprintScan 120. Using this device I have much better
success with the highlights in my negatives, but the problem does persist
with some of them, to the extent that nothing I do with my SilverFast
software helps. I haven't tried Polaroid's own software yet, but I suspect
that the problem will persist.
Confronted with a dense highlight when working in a traditional chemical
darkroom, I could easily deal with it by "burning it in" on the print. On
the scans, however, however far I take the highlight density value down from
255, either in the scan process or in PhotoShop, the scanner has given me no
detail at all to work with.
Any suggestions? -- Bard
> From: "Julie Cooke" <julie@lightdrawing.com>
> Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:33:30 +0100
> To: bardmartin@earthlink.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 not recognised
>
> Help! My scanner is no longer recognised, If I go to Control Panel, System,
> Hardware, Device Manager under Windows 2000 I know longer see Scanners
> although the firewire interface is listed. When I switch the scanner on I
> just get the flashing LED, so I guess it's either a hardware malfunction or
> a connection problem.
>
> I haven't used the scanner since installing a PCI modem for ASDL, does
> anyone know if that would cause a conflict?
>
> Thanks
>
> Julie
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