Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, there are a lot of incantations for scanning B&W negatives. You might want to do yourself the favor and pick up Vuescan. It will give you more control, probably. I'm not familiar with Minolta's software for the Dual III. I picked up a Dual II when my home scanner got clobbered by lightening. http://www.hamrick.com Enjoy! Daniel > However, I've already noticed that -- if scanning B&W negatives -- it's > much better to set the scanner to "Colour Positive" and then reverse > the image in Photoshop. For some reason, the dynamic range gets > screwed up when scanning negative material. I tried scanning a > portrait (link below) as a negative and the hair turned out more or > less solid black, while facial highlights were so blown that there was > no separation between the face and the background. > > Scanning it as a colour positive, inverting the image, and turning it > into a grey scale in PS resulted in a much better result. Still not as > good as it could be, because Photoshop LE only allows working in 8 bits > (scanner can deliver 16) and it has no tone curve correction ability. > Aah. Good job PS 7.0 is on it's way... ;) > > http://homepage.mac.com/mvhoward/images/miri.html > > M. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html