[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

["Hank Hanacek" <hank5@telus.net>]

Yeah, I'm also aware of the frustration that can arise from overexposed
slides. Even though one can hold the transparency at a certain angle to
the light and see quite a bit of detail (albeit on the light side), my
LS-2000 just is incapable of getting enough detail to prove even adequate.

Generally speaking, one can rescue slides which are one & two EV
stops underexposed, and perhaps more, but the same doesn't hold true
for overexposure. And no amount of tweaking in Photoshop can
rescue a 2-stop overexposure (although I would love to learn that I'm
wrong!)

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From: "Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>
To: <hank5@telus.net>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:12 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides


on 11/19/04 4:03 PM, Al Bond at al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that
> most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed.  I have been trying to scan
in
> and recover some of the shots but with limited success.
>
> Although the slides are very "thin", there is still some detail in the
> highlights,
> albeit very compressed.  I have used Vuescan to make sure none of the
detail
> is lost and then tried using curves in Photoshop to uncompress the
highlights
> and spread them back into the midtones.  However, I still can't get a
natural
> looking result.
>
> Has anyone got any tips or suggestions on anything else I can try?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Al Bond
>
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It's too late for this remedy, but the development of the films may have
been able to be adjusted to compensate to a large extent...but I don't know
if that works for slide film.  It's academic now; the detail is lost.

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