Digital BW, The Print

Dear Mel,

It is difficult to tell exactly what Vuescan is doing.  I have been using
Vuescan for nearly 10 years and have found that I get the best results by
doing a RAW/DNG scan  and then working on it in PS.  This comes out as a
negative, which means that using ACR is not ideal, but I find that if I
invert in Vuescan I get other processing too.  As you can imagine I have
made parallel comparisons.

I don't know if that helps.

Yours,

John

On 30 June 2011 05:07, E.Neilsen <e.neilsen2@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> John, Are you saying that a RAW scan in VueScan scans from Dmin to Dmax? Or
> do you really mean to say, output your best effort as a RAW/DNG file so you
> can work on it some more later?
>
> Eric Neilsen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John
> Beeching
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:03 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] VueScan
>
>
> Dear Mel,
>
> The only real B&W films are a couple of Kodak ones, so you could set it to
> one of those. I find it best to do a RAW scan and then do the
> post-processing in PS. In which case it doesn't matter much what settings
> you use in Vuescan, you just collect all the data the scanner can pull from
> the negative. Most of the settings in Vuescan just throw away some of that
> data, which you may regret later on. Does that make sense to you?
>
> Yours,
>
> John
>
> On 23 June 2011 12:10, Mel <chilterns@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > I didn't want to bother Ed with this as he has enough to do keeping up
> with
> > new cameras.
> >
> > I am in the process of setting up VueScan for scanning Ilford FP4+ B&W
> 120
> > negatives on a Sprintscan 120.
> >
> > When I choose B/W negative on the Input tab, the Colour tab only gives me
> > only one choice - XP2 400 for Ilford film.
> >
> > Anyone any comments with regard to this and what settings are advised for
> > this film ?
> >
> > Mel
> >
> >
> >
>
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