Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wendy - Silverfast is the best software I've found for scanning, but it does have a high learning curve and is not very intuitive. There is a manual that helps some but experimenting is even better. Good luck! Tina On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Wendy Thurman <thurmanphoto at gmail.com>wrote: > Lluis- > > I'll take all the advice I can get! Thanks for taking the time to write > it. > > More on the scanner- some of my problems with the film have not been film > problems, but scanner use (or misuse!) My frustration level was getting > the > better of me so I shot a roll in careful conditions- test work only using a > tripod and a gray scale taped to the wall, handheld shots in my room of > detailed items- text, patterns, etc. The Hewes reel was a breeze to use. > Processed the film carefully, at 68F, 1:1, 10 minutes, 5 sec initial > agitiation and 5 sec every 30 sec afterwards. The negatives looked great. > Then I scanned them and was horrified at the results. > > Silverfast software asks what sort of film one is using, and from the > beginning I had indicated Tri-X. However, there is more! Silverfast is > deceptively simple to use but there's more going on than I realized. > Knowing that the negatives were good, I concentrated on the software > settings. Here's a result on the test roll I shot yesterday evening- > pedestrian photo but it's got all the tonal range and the look I expect > from > Tri-X: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Wendy+Thurman/Untitled-1.jpg.html > > Onward! > > Wendy > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com