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Subject: [Leica] To Tina (Silverfast question)
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 16:37:10 -0500
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Good, Luis!  I'm glad I could help.

Tina

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tina,
>
> I come back to you. I've do some very fast trials following your advice
> and I see good results, I still have to do much more experience but I'm
> happy. I think LR has more possibilities than Capture One, I'm used with
> it, maybe in the future when I can afford a M9 I'll do a trial with LR.
>
> Thank you very much again for your help!
>
> Saludos
> Lluis
>
>
> El 05/01/2012, a las 19:09, Tina Manley escribi?:
>
>  Hi, Luis -
>>
>> I answered your e-mail while I was waiting in the dentist's office.  When
>> I
>> got back home, I checked to be sure how I was scanning.  I use the 48 Bit
>> HDR Color for scanning everything, even black and white.  I set it for
>> either negative or positive but still have to invert the curve when I
>> import negatives into LR.  I scan at 4000 dpi and end up with a file about
>> 120MB.  I keep Digital ICE on normal, unless I'm scanning B&W or
>> Kodachrome.  And I use the multiple exposure feature to scan every slide
>> twice at different exposures.  I believe that is how Silverfast advises
>> you
>> to scan to get every bit of the information that is available in the film.
>> The scans come out dark and dense, but that's because they are Raw files
>> and have to be converted either with Silverfast's HDR program or in LR or
>> PS.  I tried the HDR program but find I can get just as good results in LR
>> and PS and it's a lot easier to use the ones I'm familiar with.
>>
>> Hope this helps!  Good luck.
>>
>> 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.i L
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>>
>>> Saludos
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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