Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Sprintscan 4000
From: j.leonarddesigner@videotron.ca (Jacques Leonard designer)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:26:10 -0500 (EST)

>Dear LUG,
>
>I'm the proud if not confused owner of a Sprintscan 4000 and a Power Mac
>G$/400. I figure it was either that or aspheric lenses for my Leicas. At
>least this way I can work on maximizing their output from film to bytes.
>
>So, I'm having trouble getting a good grayscale scan. When I preview the
>b&w neg in Polaroid's PolaColor Insight 4.0 software the preview looks
>great. When I do the scan and it opens in Photoshop it looks very washed
>out/overexposed. I can correct this using Photoshop's curves, etc. but
>I'd like to get a native scan that resembles my preview.


Hi Carl,
Why don't you check in this month Shutterbug. There is an article by
C.B.Brooks concerning b&w scanning and I think he addresses this sitoation.

Jacques Leonard
j.leonarddesigner@videotron.ca
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