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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Scanning Black & White Negatives

2004-08-18 by Dave Moeller

Bruce-

I'm glad I was able to help.

Be well.
Dave

--- btvarner <btvarner@...> wrote:

> Thank you! Thank you!
> This is exactly what I was doing!  No one else saw through the 
> issue.  Since I have been shooting everything digital the last few 
> months, I had forgotten which folder I sent my scan to.  consequently
> 
> I have been looking at the raw files.
> 
> This is much better, thanks again!
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: dmoeller.rm [mailto:dmoeller@...] 
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:23 AM
> >To: btvarner
> >Subject: Re: Scanning Black & White Negatives
> 
> >Just to be sure...are you certain you're opening the scanned output 
> >file in PhotoShop and _not_ the Vuescan raw data file?  If you open 
> >a 
> >Vuescan raw data file (they're saved as TIFF files), you get a very 
> >dark looking negative image with a bunched up histogram.  This might
> 
> >be your problem.
> 
> >Check your output tab to make sure you're naming the Vuescan raw 
> >files and your TIFF output files something different enough that you
> 
> >can distinguish them.  (I think Vuescan defaults to "SCAN" as the 
> >prefix for both files.  Try changing the prefix for your TIFF files 
> >to something like "OUTPUT".)
> 
> 
> 



		
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