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Subject: [Leica] Scanning silver halide films - which one scans best? - OT
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon May 17 17:13:11 2004

That may be my problem. My scanner came with no instructions, so
fiddling with the curves is sort of hit and miss. Does anyone know if
Vuescan will work with a Nikon Coolscan III? I can get instructions for
it.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don
Dory
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:02 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Scanning silver halide films - which one scans
best? - OT

Jeffery,
I have no problem scanning FP4, HP5,Delta 400, Agfa APX100, Fuji Neopan
400, Fuji Neopan 1600, Fuji Across, Ilford Pan F, Kodak Tri-X, or any
other film.

My B&W developer of choice is Xtol, usually at 1:3 but lately 1:2 for
Fuji Neopan 1600.  Generally, I use generic B&W on my Kodak 3600 which
does have look up tables for many films.

I used to use a Nikon scanner and using the dedicated software also did
not have any difficulties.  My belief is that you have to play with the
levels and curves in the pre-scan set up to arrive at your final image.

Trust the prescan and adjust until you see a result you like.  Oh, and
turn off any dust and scratch removal software because that for sure
will cause the soot and chalk treatment.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Jeffery Smith
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:44 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Scanning silver halide films - which one scans best? -
OT

Practical Photography touts the following three films as being good for 
scanning:

Ilford Delta 400

Agfa 100 APX

Fuji Acros 100

If you use and scan any of these three films successfully (i.e., find
that 
they scan WELL), please email me offlist with which developer you use.

Thanks!

Jeffery

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