FoldingCamera
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fitzihardwurshd said:Well, exactly that was the suspect I had in my mind. If that is what I get from multipass, no thanks ! Am I nuts ? I am healed from this idea.
Regards and thanks to all who have answered to my question.
Fitzi
The way to avoid buckling of the film is to use a betterscanning film holder (see Doug above) with a anti newton ring glass that will hold the film flat. If using 35mm a flat bed is not the best option, a dedicated film scanner like the plustek Will give far superior scans. as for Viewscan I like the no frills presentation and find the functionality more useful than the software that comes with either the Epson or Plustek.
Stephen.
robertdfeinman
Robert Feinman
Vuescan and Epson
Vuescan and Epson
The Epson flatbeds don't give anywhere near their rated resolution. Regardless of what the specs say the are in the range of 2400dpi. You can see samples in the tips section of my web site.
As for Vuescan, the best way to use it is to scan your original with as little manipulaton as possible. What this means is setting the black and white points to maximize the brightness range and leaving all other adjustments to your editing software. Scanning at 16bit depth (if your scanner supports it) is also a good idea. You then do large scale adjustments to color, contrast and brightness in this mode. Then convert to 8 bit for further editing, and output.
Profiles don't work with color negative. For a scanner you can profile it yourself with a commercial profiling package, but then you must keep all scanner and software settings exactly the same as when the profile was made.
I don't think mulit-sampling will gain you much. At most it will even out speckles in the lowest order bit. For slides this will be dead black and for negatives it will be pure white. Setting the clipping properly will eliminate the noise. If your image is so dense that you think you need to multi-sample then you have mis-exposed your film.
As many others have said,download a copy and try it for yourself. There are several tutorials on the web which may make setting up a bit clearer than the included instructions.
Vuescan and Epson
The Epson flatbeds don't give anywhere near their rated resolution. Regardless of what the specs say the are in the range of 2400dpi. You can see samples in the tips section of my web site.
As for Vuescan, the best way to use it is to scan your original with as little manipulaton as possible. What this means is setting the black and white points to maximize the brightness range and leaving all other adjustments to your editing software. Scanning at 16bit depth (if your scanner supports it) is also a good idea. You then do large scale adjustments to color, contrast and brightness in this mode. Then convert to 8 bit for further editing, and output.
Profiles don't work with color negative. For a scanner you can profile it yourself with a commercial profiling package, but then you must keep all scanner and software settings exactly the same as when the profile was made.
I don't think mulit-sampling will gain you much. At most it will even out speckles in the lowest order bit. For slides this will be dead black and for negatives it will be pure white. Setting the clipping properly will eliminate the noise. If your image is so dense that you think you need to multi-sample then you have mis-exposed your film.
As many others have said,download a copy and try it for yourself. There are several tutorials on the web which may make setting up a bit clearer than the included instructions.
aad
Not so new now.
Multiscan won't help with getting slides sharper-it really is a noise reduction feature. Believe me, I tried and tried.fitzihardwurshd said:
fitzihardwurshd
Spiteful little devil
aad said:
I know that, it wasn't about more sharpness, I thought of getting more shadow detail by multi pass.
The Epson 4490 software is very good at this point, the results are good, especially relative to a flatbed scanner. Not less good than a KM Dualscan IV I'd say.
But I thought maybe Vuescan could improve the results anyway, therefore I asked.
Regards
Fitzi