[Leica] Nikon 5000ED

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

I have a V. The documentation stinks and the preview is
barely usable.  The real docs are on a CD, not the booklet
they provide, but the CD docs stink as well.  GEM and the
rest of the post processing slows down scans considerably. 

You can setup a canned "Settings" entry with a lower scan res
and crank out a set of smaller files to function like a digital
contact sheet. I do this with B&W negs and batch scanning.
Then devote attention to the frames of interest, make higher
res scans, etc.

I recently got Vuescan. Docs are even more minimal, but it
seems to clip highlights less with B&W negs. Also a few areas
of exposure control that are more fine grained.

What really bugs me the most is that I don't have a very
clear mental picture of *exactly* what the scanner and
post processing software are doing, and then a completely
"deterministic" degree of control over each step. The
simplistic "how-to" Nikon docs don't help me at all in
this regard.

firkin wrote:

> Would someone who uses a Nikon Scanner be kind enough to go through 
> their set up and work flow with differing slides/negs etc. I am trying 
> to search the archive with limited success.
> I have bought a Nikon 5000ED scanner, with roll film and slide 
> loaders. So far, I've played with slide scanning, using the SF 210. 
> Apart from occasional jams etc the results are very good, but scan 
> times seem very high. Should I scan at maximal resolution and play 
> with 130meg images later or is there a way to scan smaller previews 
> quickly and then only hi-res the scans you want?
> Scanning time seems more of a problem wiht the digital ICE etc, which 
> takes a long time. At the moment, I'm using ICE for non Kodachrome 
> slides (but it seems to work with most anyway) and finding a little 
> shadow penetration and colour correction is very useful: I set ROC to 
> one and DEE to 5.
> DEE seems to cause "flareing" on the resultant scans from areas of 
> high brightness -- do others find this?
> Tips please.
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