RE: PAW 6, Vuescan?

  • From: "Barry Fisher" <uhooru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:02:07 -0800

I know what you mean Nathan, but I'm not sure Vuescan is any better.  With
any film scan you are going to have to work on the image in photoshop to
some degree. With silver halide film, you are also going to have to spot.
But its not so bad, once its done, you've got a good photo file that can be
printed from time and time again.

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From: leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:27 PM
To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PAW 6, Vuescan?

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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