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Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:59:00 -0600
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Sonny,

VueScan produced a scan in negative format, which I moved into PS Elements 
6.0, but I can't find a tool to convert the negative to positive.

Any suggestions?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?


> BTW, most flatbed scanners are very much faster if you scan a negative as 
> a
> positive, and invert in Photoshop.  The software is native positive, and 
> it
> makes the conversion as you go; Photoshop is far faster than most scanning
> software at converting.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Jim, do you have a transparency adapter on the Epson?  If you do, and it
>> is plugged in, Vuescan will see the transparency adapter and you can 
>> choose
>> it.  I don't have Vuescan at home so I can't talk you through it, but if
>> you still have the issue remind me tomorrow, and I'll talk you through 
>> it.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jim Nichols 
>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Mark, help me out here.  I scanned some 35mm negs on my old Epson 
>>> flatbed
>>> several years ago, but have forgotten what software I used.  The last 
>>> time
>>> I tried to scan a strip of 35 negs, I tried VueScan, and it activated 
>>> the
>>> scanner, but I could never make it give me the option to select a 
>>> negative,
>>> or convert from a negative to positive image.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to get there?  I don't think the Epson software
>>> offers me the negative option, either.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" 
>>> <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34 PM
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>>
>>>
>>>  I think an Epson flat bed is most what we need to connect our previous
>>>> sheet
>>>> film and even medium format existence to our here and now digital
>>>> internet
>>>> world.
>>>> I think scan a "large" neg on even a less pricey flat bed and run it up
>>>> the
>>>> flagpole on a gallery or website and its going to blow the 35mm stuff
>>>> right
>>>> out of the water.
>>>> Even if it was full frame and shot with Aspherical Apochromatic glass 
>>>> or
>>>> had
>>>> jacked up megapixels. The richness still comes though and the fact that
>>>> it
>>>> comes from much more real estate.
>>>> Acreage Acreage Acreage.
>>>> The stuff just has more weight.
>>>> The ponderousness of setting up a sheet film shot comes through.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mark R.
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:45 -0600
>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an
>>>>>> email to a
>>>>>> friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not going
>>>>>> to be
>>>>>> about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For those rare purposes (of needing a decent digital copy of a film
>>>>> negative)
>>>>> I simply copy it with the 100 mm apo-macro-elmarit on the DMR
>>>>> (or in the case of sheet film - scan it on my epson flat bed
>>>>> though the 11x14 and 12x20 sheet film doesn't fit there either).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> George Lottermoser
>>>>> george at imagist.com
>>>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**imagist<http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>
>> USA
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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