Digital BW, The Print

Thanks John I'm trying both methods (inverting in VueScan and inverting in my fav. editor, PWP - I only have the first CS Photoshop)

Mel

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, John Beeching <johnbeeching@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> > Eric Neilsen Photography
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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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