Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]H a Nathan for anything special i would recommend http://www.marxenschuuring.nl/ to you , they have high end equipment you can rent and use there. and they are a lot cheaper i,ve heard thanks for the help,simon - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <n.wajsman@chello.nl> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] scanning dark scala question > Simon, > > As Don wrote, with high-end equipment you will be able to get something. > I suggest that if the image is really important to you, let s-Color have > a crack at it with their mega-thousand-Euro equipment, and see what they > get out of the slide. > > Nathan > > animal wrote: > > > > So there would be no use in having something scanned on a state of the art > > machine since there is nothing there to scan? > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > I don't know which scanner you have, but my experience with my Nikon LS > > > 2000 is that underexposed (i.e. dark) Scala is the most difficult film > > > for the scanner to deal with. In general, I find that this scanner likes > > > slides that are on the "thin" side, i.e. somewhat more exposure than one > > > would ordinarily want. The problem is especially acute with Scala. I am > > > pretty sure you get the same issue with other film scanners, and I am > > > afraid there is not much you can do about it. > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > animal wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, some time ago i scanned a few i had taken at night on Agfa Scala > > > > slide film > > > > The slides looked dark but ok on the lighttable but i had a hard time > > > > scanning them. > > > > Remember that i increased the scanners brightness in order to get some > > > > volume on the histogram; > > > > producing artifacts like the ghost image of the staircase in this one: > > > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-40954.html > > > > Would it have gone better if i just left the light normal and modified > > the > > > > tones after scanning? > > > > Can,t try because the film is gone somewhere. > > > > Thanks again > > > > simon jessurun > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > > Nathan Wajsman > > > Almere, The Netherlands > > > > > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > > > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > > > > > http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html > > > -- > > > 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 > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html > -- > 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