Scanning Negatives with Epson V500

[Dave Jenkins]

Here's Kirk Tuck's article on scanning with the V500. You might find it helpful.

http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2012/06/window-light-in-early-evening.html

 

[Muggins]

Thanks, Dave, I'll have a read and another bash this evening, and possibly download Elephants 9 on a faster machine too... I am going to get there, if it kills me!


Adrian

 

[ray*j*gun]

I love my v500.... my only issue is that it is so so sensitive to dust.

 

[Ranchu]

Here's how I do it, but I might forget something. Thumbnails on, sharpening on low, don't crop out the black frame, crop later, set cropping area on large in config, in config set auto exposure on the lowest, all it does is add an s curve (!!!), in the levels dialog in epsonscan set r g and b channel's mid tone gamma's to '1', add a couple points of saturation in epsonscan to taste. Crop and color correct midtones with a grey eyedropper in another program, or by eye. Use 'auto color' or whatsit in config, you want the color 'handled', you'll get srgb. This is a 'flat' scan.