[filmscanners] Re: RAW?

["" <lists@lazygranch.com>]

Photoshop is so bloated. I don't want to be "that" creati
ve. 

Vuescan has a one click white balance. Or you let
 it adjust by itself. Its up to you. The deal is you have
 it raw and then to go to town. Now I don't know if photo
shop can handle a raw from vuescan. 

While I'm at it h
ere, you should calibrate the scanner. Vuescan has a simp
le IT8 procedure. Now this might only be in the pro versi
on.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Carlisle Landel
" <clandel@roadrunner.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:37
:04 
To: <lists@lazygranch.com>
Subject: [filmscanners]
 Re: RAW?

Gary,

I was actually thinking of doing th
e scans, then using Photoshop or
similar for image proce
ssing.  I hadn't ever considered that it might
be possib
le to use Vuescan to do the processing.

Interesting.

Carlisle


On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:42 PM, "" <lists@laz
ygranch.com>
<lists@lazygranch.com> wrote:

> Most of
the tweaking done in a scanner is "computer", not
>  som
ething done by physically altering how the scanner wo
>
rks. (A few thing DO change the scanning process, such as

>  the long exposure scan used for dense images.)
> Th
us yo
> u can scan raw, save to the hard drive, then lat
er read t
> he raw image into vuescan. So it is the most
 flexible.
>
> I should put out that vuescan does its t
weaking based on
>  the cropped image. That is, only the
 cropped image is an
> alyzed.
> -----Original Message-
----
> From: "Carlisle Lan
> del" <clandel@roadrunner.c
om>
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15
> :03:59
> To: <list
s@lazygranch.com>
> Subject: [filmscanne
> rs] Re: RAW?

>
> Hi Preston,
>
> At this point, my expertis
> e
in color correction is essentially nil.
> I figured I'd

> get busy acquiring  that next, but it seems easiest to

> j
> ust start scanning.
>
> You make a *great* poi
nt that I ou
> ght to upgrade for the updates
> alone.
 Maybe (in fact, i
> t is quite likely) I'll do the upgr
ade
> regardless of my
> output format, but the origina
l question still
> stands.
> However, maybe I need to r
estate the question in light of
>
> your comments.
>
> So here goes:  What format gives me t
> he *most* flex
ibility for post-
> scanning correction/proc
> essing/e
tc.?  And corollary to this:  Is
> there a *downsi
> de
* (other than sheer file size) to such a format?
>
> Th
a
> nks,
>
> Carlisle
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:12
 PM, Preston
>  Earle wrote:
>
>> "Carlisle Landel" as
ked "Upgrade and s
> can RAW, or just go with TIFF?"
>>
 ----------------------
> ---
>>
>> What is your level
 of color-correction expertis
> e? As I understand your

>> plans, you want to bulk-scan a
>  bunch of slides un
attended. Without
>> making
>> individ
> ual adjustmen
ts to the software for each scan, you will h
> ave
>> a
 lot of
>> color correction to do on each image.
> (Eve
n with making individual
>> adjustments for each scan
>
 , you will have to make a fair number of
>> adjustments
 t
> o get really good final images. If you are very
>>
 compet
> ent in
>> Photoshop color correction, it may
help to star
> t with RAW files
>> ( though I
>> doubt
 it), otherwise, s
> tarting with tiffs (or jpegs) will
be just
>> as good.
>>
>
>> I'd suggest you pick out
a dozen representative slide
> s and take
>> them throu
gh
>> the complete scanning/corre
> cting process to ge
t a good idea of what
>> you will
>> b
> e doing befor
e starting to scan the bulk of the slides. Y
> ou may
>
> want to
>> make some changes in your workflow b
> efo
re you get ALL the slides
>> scanned.
>>
>> I'm not fa

> miliar with VueScan's RAW format, but in general RAW

>> p
> rocessors
>> give some additional options in co
lor-correc
> tion, but 95% of the
>> necessary
>> work
 can be done in
> Photoshop alone.
>>
>> A greater rea
son to get the Pro ve
> rsion is to get a lifetime of
>
> updates.
>> It's pretty
> good insurance or $40. I do
n't know how often Ed
>> updat
> es the
>> program the
se days, but several years ago he wo
> uld put out updat
es
>> every
>> week or so.
>>
>>
>> Pres
> ton Earl
e
>> PEarle@triad.rr.com
>> www.sawdustforbrains.
> bl
ogspot.com
>>
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