Re: PAW 6, Vuescan?

  • From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:27:11 +0100

Tina,

Lovely shots all three!

As for Vuescan, I think it is superior to the Nikon software in its ability to get more information out of a slide or negative. I have never used any of the cleaning settings, for the reasons you describe--they all introduce some softness. I am afraid there is no free lunch...I recently submitted some scanned images to a stock agency, and given that they require perfection, it meant patiently going around the image at 100% and remove blemishes with the clone tool. I think I will stick to digital for stock ;-)

Nathan

Tina Manley wrote:

PAWs:

O.K. all of you Vuescan users -

I'm trying to learn how to scan black and white with Vuescan. Since I can't use Digital ICE with B&W, I'm looking for some way to cut down on the spotting when I scan all of these old black and white negatives and that's why I downloaded Vuescan. So far, I'm not too impressed, but maybe I'm overlooking something obvious. When I crank the infrared cleaning up to high, the image gets too soft. When it's on medium or light, I still have to spend a long time spotting out dust and scratches. These first two were on medium, but I did a lot of spotting. Am I overlooking something obvious or expecting too much? These are old negatives and I've cleaned them as much as I can without scratching them more.

Other than that, these are all photos I'm scanning for stock. What do you think? The second alternate is another old Kodachrome.

Week 6: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515879
Alternate 1: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515884
Alternate 2: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515900

Thanks for looking.

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com




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