[Leica] Your opinions please

[lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Hi Peter,

Thank you very much for your kind details.

I?ve never tested PWP, but I think my problems is not the software, IMHO 
with Capture One 7Pro, Vuescan Pro and PS I shall have enough options. IMHO 
the problem is that film quality has been changed and adjust the development 
to this.  
When I?m scanning old films it work, when I scann Ilford HP5 it works almost 
perfect, because this film has been practically unchanged and Tri-X and 
others yes.

I?m agree about the limitations of Capture One removing the dust spots, I 
scann everything at 16 bit Tiff.

Thank you very much again!!!

Cheers
Lluis

El 03/08/2014, a las 22:45, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> escribi?:

> Hi, Lluis!  I agree that the V7000/LR5 is best.
> 
> I've used a Canon FS-4000 scanner for years. The supplied Canon software 
> made high contrast scans much like your first example. This was "baked in" 
> and couldn't be undone. So I switched to VueScan.
> 
> After scanning, I adjust and dust-spot the images in Picture Window Pro 
> (PWP). I have two methods:
> 
> For pictures that will be printed or I want maximum detail/quality, I scan 
> to 16-bit TIF files using maximum resolution and lowest contrast (making 
> sure that the extremes of highlight and shadow are within the curve). Then 
> I do my adjustments in PWP.  If the picture is very contrasty, I turn on 
> the feature that does two passes with the scanner, one exposure for 
> highlights and one for shadows. Only some scanners support this, I don't 
> know if your Plustek does.
> 
> For old family pictures that will be only viewed on-screen or don't have 
> much resolution to begin with, I scan to JPG. I have some settings that 
> work well most of the time. They get the picture right, or almost right. I 
> do only a little adjustment in PWP, and it's done.
> 
> Part of your problem may be that scanning film is very different from 
> "scanning" real life with a digital camera. In one case the sensor is 
> getting light reflected from reality.  In the other, it's getting light 
> transmitted through the film, which has changed the contrast range of the 
> original scene. So the Raw software may be getting a very different 
> contrast range than it was designed for, and the default settings are way 
> off.
> 
> I thought about trying to use Capture One with my film scans. The VueScan 
> version I have doesn't create DNG files, and I haven't upgraded yet. The 
> other issue is that Capture One can remove little spots of dust, but to 
> remove longer "threads," regular image editing software with a clone tool 
> is better.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> > Thank to all of you my friends for your opinions, I think too that the 
> > V7000
> > and LR5 processing is better, I would like do some more test with V700 
> > and
> > Vuescan because with it I can do DNG files. I?m also surprised seeing 
> > such
> > differences in scanning quality, I have also tested with Silverfast but 
> > not
> > showed in my opinion the two I?ve show was the best.
> 
> 
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