[LargeFormat] Scanning B&W negs in colour

[Pam Niedermayer]

You may want to get hold of "Real World Scanning..." by David Blatner,
pretty much considered the best reference/tutorial.

Pam

Clive Warren wrote:
> 
> At 10:06 pm -0600 21/2/01, Pam Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >
> >Clive Warren wrote:
> >>  ...
> >>  I was a little disappointed with the 4x5 B&W neg. scans carried out
> >>  so far, but I have only tried a couple so it may be the case that
> >>  more experimentation is needed. When the limits of the SilverFast
> >>  software is reached then VueScan may be worth a look if the B&W negs
> >  > are still unsatisfactory.
> snip
> 
> >Yes, definitely keep at it, getting high quality scans is not a
> >trivial effort. If there were any real connection between PS and
> >scanning software, most likely it was simply the 256 number, since 256
> >can be represented in 8 bits, or one word on older pc's. These days
> >words are much longer, of course, but this is the type of thing that
> >could be held over in pursuit of compatibility.
> snip
> Pam
> 
> Thanks Pam, will definitely be trying out a few more negs after the
> weekend and see if I can beat the system into submission :-)
> 
> Will let you know how it goes....
> --
> All the best,
> 
>              Clive Warren   http://www.f32.net
>                             Large Format travel and stock photography
> 
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