Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] Re: scanner software
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Tue Feb 28 14:43:53 2006
References: <20062289334.218789@NewDellHome>

At 07:03 AM 2/28/2006, David Keenan wrote:

> >I have personally scanned hundred+ rolls (it's easy when you have a bulk
> >film adapter) of Tri-X and some HP5 with Vuescan and a LS-4000. It took a
> >while to find the right settings but seldom any problems now.
>
>Can you share the settings with me? If you have saved the VueScan settings 
>you could just e-mail me the .ini file where the settings are saved and I 
>could compare them to what I currently have set.

The ini files are not "portable" between releases :-( Vuescan user 
experience is not the best in that sense. Really though, the keys are

Input: 16 bits gray
Quality: Edit or Archive (2000 dpi vs 4000)
NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT infrared clean. Occasionally I turn on slight grain 
reduction but it doesn't make much difference
Color-> White Balance
Film: generic color negative (!)
Leave B&W points as is.

Oh, make sure your negs are as dust free as possible :-)

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 


In reply to: Message from ausdlk at swbell.net (David Keenan) ([Leica] Re: scanner software)