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Subject: [Leica] To Tina (Silverfast question)
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:51:35 +0100
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Thank you Tina, yes this really helps

Saludos
Lluis


El 05/01/2012, a las 14:11, Tina Manley escribi?:

> Hi, Luis -
>
> I use the 32 bit HDR but I scan in color, even for B&W.  That gives  
> you a
> raw file which you can then adjust in LR or PS.  I prefer to do all  
> of my
> adjustments in LR or PS where you have more control than with the  
> scanning
> software.  By scanning in 32 bit HDR you get every bit of the  
> information
> available in the negative so you use it just like a Raw digital file.
> It's true that you get a negative instead of positive, but there are  
> LR
> templates that will reserve the curve and give you a positive.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Tina
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at 
> gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
>> Hi Tina,
>>
>> I know you are expert with the Silverfast, I've bought recently a  
>> Plustek
>> film scanner with Silverfast SE, it offers different forms to scan  
>> B&W
>> negatives:
>>
>> a)  16->8 bit Gray scale
>>
>> b) 16 bit HDR Gray Escale
>>
>> c) 32 bit HDRi Gray Scale
>>
>> The first one allow manual adjustments on curves,  
>> histogramm...etc...,
>> I've sate that without any mask of focus the better result is  
>> obtained. The
>> b and c don't allow any manual adjustments but IMO they produce  
>> finest
>> quality, the c makes really big files if you save it in Tiff, about  
>> 100
>> MB!, IMO the b is a good option. What I'm surprised is that b and c  
>> scann
>> an image in negative and after I shall invert it in PS and do the
>> adjustments.
>>
>> Please let me know your 5 cents about the best system and if my  
>> workflow
>> is correct...
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>
>> Saludos
>> Lluis
>>
>>
>>
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>
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