VueScan Support for OpticFilim 120

[kanzlr]

thanks 🙂

oh, I still have an alignment issue with Vuescan 9.3.19 on Mac:

 

[alltag]

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Driver

@kanzlr:
Have you installed the latest Plustek driver?

Driver 5.0.0.4 (08/20/2013)
Fixed 35mm film scanning offset.
http://plustek.com/de/products/opticfilm-series/opticfilm-120/downloads.html

 

[cabbiinc]

I find that profiling the scanner has made my life so much easier for slides and negatives alike. Referring to Vuescan.

 

[kanzlr]

@kanzlr:
Have you installed the latest Plustek driver?

I'm on a Mac, no drivers here.

Ed told me to try 2.5x9in setting and multicrop and this works, also, he suggested to try the new 9.3.20, which I will do in the evening.

 

[kanzlr]

oh and compared to SF, I love VueScan. The feature that you can preview the whole strip holder in ONE pass, contrary to SF preview scanning one frame a time is such a huge timesafer, especially as I usually invert with ColorPerfect anyway.

 

[Fernando2]

especially as I usually invert with ColorPerfect anyway.

Another reason to vouch for a IT8 profile. 🙂
Vuescan Pro has an integrated profiling function; it only creates "matrix-based" ICC profiles (simple, not extremely accurate but OK), much better than nothing.

Scanning in raw output mode, inverting with ColorPerfect (without clipping) and then applying the ICC input correction profile, you get a good starting point.
From there, usually an AutoColor (if you use Photoshop) set to no clipping gives correct colors and retains the huge dynamic range of the negative.

Oh and another thing... this is not directed to you kanzlr...

Profiling a scanner with an IT8 target DOES NOT MEAN "profiling a film", it means "profiling a scanner"!

So it's not true that "if you do a profile with a certain IT8 slide target, then if you scan another kind of film it does not work", like someone stated.

The purpose of ICC profiling with whatever IT8 target is to describe the color&gamma errors of the *input device* (scanner in our case).
So that profile is valid whatever the film you scan.

That said, different IT8 targets exist based upon different slide film, because the base-color for the polynomial interpolation at the basis of ICC profiling are slightly different in different slide films, and so is the dynamic range.
So you get slightly better accuracy using the same target(s) of your most scanned film(s), but this does not mean, at all, that ICC profile done with a Velvia IT8 target works bad when scanning Ektachromes.

Fer

 

[kanzlr]

Thanks alot Fernando, thats very informative.

I am VERY pleased with the Plustek 120, and now with VueScan support I can only recommend it to everyone. It is a great replacement for my Coolscan. Only batch scanning an entire roll is not (yet) possible. Plustek hint at providing such an option in the future in their FAQ, as well as glass mounts.

 

[Fernando2]

I'm glad to hear this! 🙂
I hope Plustek does a further step forward and designs adjustable-height holders 🙂 anyway the Opticfilm 120 is one of our only 2 choices for new scanners, so the more good news about it, the better for all us film lovers! 🙂

Keep us posted please! 🙂

Fer