Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Getting used to new scanning software is a challenge. I just switched from Silverfast to Vuescan and the first scans almost made me switch back. The Ted scans I just posted are a good example of some poor scan choices and post processing as they obviously suffer from accentuated aliasing (likely from too much unsharp masking?) which wasn't apparent last night blurry eyed at 1am. This was never an issue in Silverfast so I have a scanning mystery to solve. It is a challenge to get that film developed correctly and scanned correctly and then displayed correctly on your and others monitors. The finished product is still an image matted, framed, and hanging on the wall IMO. Web be damned! I agree that developing your own film is a must. Although a zone system approach doesn't work that well for role film it is still important to figure out optimal developing time for your shooting preferences (lens, light, ISO, chemistry) all of which need to work together for image quality. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Thanks, Mark, Richard, Ken. > > If I decide to do B&W film more, I will certainly develop my own film. > The tanks and such are still in my garage. And I did quite a lot of > scanning before I went digital. > > The way I scan, I do my best to get the entire range of the negative into > a 16-bit TIFF, perhaps minus the specular highlights. Then I mess with > curves, spotting, local contrast, and "dodging and burning" in Picture > Window Pro. I might want to fool around with the files in Capture One if > that's possible, I haven't checked yet. > > Since the "Nurse" photo, I've worked up this one from the same roll. I > like it. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/14085787215/> > > --Peter > > > I wrote, and several others responded thereto: > > > I've embarked on an experiment to see whether I want to shoot B&W film > > again. The "Nurse" picture I recently posted was the beginning of that > > experiment. > > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/13892553280/> > > > > Here are a few things I've noticed while "recalibrating" > > myself--otherwise known as "how the heck did I do this back in '06?" > > > > Here's a side by side of the same Tri-X shot, scanned at 4000 dpi (left) > > and 2000 dpi (right). The negative was developed in Xtol 1:2 by > > Moonphoto, a good B&W lab a few miles from my home. The scanner is a > > Canon FS-4000, running under VueScan. Click the double rectangle above > > the picture to see it full size. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/ > GrainAliasTriX4Kvs2Kdpi.JPG.html> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Chris Saganich www.imagebrooklyn.com