Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] Vuescan and Nikon ED 5000 woes again
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Wed Nov 15 03:53:13 2006
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THANKS
On 15/11/2006, at 18:37, Richard wrote:

> At 10:51 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote:
>> So settings: what is a generally good Bits per pixel, make gray from,
>> Number of samples, scanner colour space, Printer colour space, film
>> colour space Output colour space and monitor colour space? I've got
>> Scanner built in, printer sRGB, film built in, output Apple RGB and
>> monitor Apple RGB
>
> 16 bits per pixel
> make gray from auto
> 1 sample
> your color spaces are (printer doesn't matter since you are not  
> printing)
>
> generic color negative for B&W film. Try it!
>
>> CHEERS
>> On 15/11/2006, at 17:20, Richard wrote:
>>
>>> Alastair, Frame Offset on the Input tab. Try clicking it couple
>>> times to get a value of around 3.87 or so... Sometimes I use up to
>>> 5 if there is fair amount of empty space. High quality scan is
>>> pretty easy. I use Vuescan with both NikonScan and the Minolta 5400
>>> with nary a problem on B&W (Neopan 400/1600, Tri-X, ...)
>>>
>>> At 10:27 PM 11/14/2006, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>>>>> Problem one: When I put the film in the scanner, it advances but
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> far enough, so that the preview includes too much blank air and
>>>>>> therefore the scan is incomplete. With the Nikon software I could
>>>>>> manually adjust the starting position for the preview, but I  
>>>>>> cannot
>>>>>> find it in VueScan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My litany of other problems are mainly to do with what  
>>>>>> settings to
>>>> use to get a really high quality scan, but we can come to those  
>>>> if I
>>>> could align the negative with the preview.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers and TIA
>>>>
>>>> Alastair
>>>
>>> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
>>> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
>>>
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