Recent Scans and Complexity

[marcr1230]

Here's some recent scans

My talents are pretty minimal. I enjoy the doing, the process, although the results are not always the best.

I have a lot of equipment because it makes me happy. I try to use it all periodically, develop, scan and of late very rarely , wet print.

Scanning is a pain, I have a Nikon Coolscan V, using it with Vuescan and a Mac laptop on OS X El Cap.

it took me 20 minutes to find a suitable negative brush before starting, such is my life.

When I scan, I have to fiddle with the scanner, on/off, Vuescan on/off, laptop on.off, finally they are all running and recognizing that the film is loaded, and off we go...

I scanned last night and after a couple of less than ideal trials. I realized the configuration setting in Vuescan are "hidden" and you have to use a scroll-bar on the side to bring them into view - I probably went this route last time I scanned as well

Then I scan, tediously strip by strip to find the couple frames I like.

Then full rez scan, save to disk, import into Affinity Photo, relearn how Affinity works, crop and adjust curves, and Voila, at midnight I have a result.

Thanks to Chris Crawford (tag) whose website has loads of info including his Vuescan config and workflow

This was taken with a new to me Nikon FM2n (Thanks John Earley - I wish we could tag people in posts), and my Zeiss 50/1.4 Planar - I really like this lens, and it balances well on the FM2n kit:

 

[marcr1230]

Here's another, This was before I got the scanner set up the way I wanted, I may redo it

This is along the Lakefront in Chicago on a nice bright warm winter day

taken with a Nikon SP Classic and the 50mm 1.4 reissue

 

[robert blu]

Scanning takes time and is not easy, personally I still have difficulties with Vuescan with my Nikon 5000ED, kept NikonScan on an old Mac running SL because easier, at least for me!

I like both your pictures and the only suggestion I can give you is to wear a good earphones and listen to some good music, it makes the process less boring 🙂

As from my side this is a shot from my FM2N with a 50/1,4 AIS on Delta 100 scan from 5000ed and nikonscan.

robert

 

[doolittle]

+1

Scanning time is music time!

 

[marcr1230]

Here's one from an overpass between platforms, looking south from Monroe approx

OM3 35mm2.8 Zuiko, Fuji Acros 100:

 

[marcr1230]

Here's a chance encounter on the Platform at Belmont

Nikon S2 35/2.5 Nikkor, TMY 400