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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Old Dog - New Tricks, Scanning 4x5 negs...

2005-06-10 by Ernst Dinkla

Nick H. Nugent wrote:

>
>Anyway, the idea is you want to have the widest
>exposure lattitude possible for your film and scene
>using your favorite zone system development recipe,
>and if the scanner is not able to capture all the
>details in one pass, do it twice at different
>exposure and merge them in your software.
>  
>
Vuescan will do that with "long exposure".  Two passes, one slow and a 
normal one. Merging what is important. 16 bit for greyscale.

Ernst

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