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Re: Scanners being used/Color Scanning

2008-01-07 by Robert Lee

I can't believe that I've been scanning film for over a year and I
still haven't tried vuescan. Sounds like it might give me a fighting
chance with those problem color negatives.

Thanks for the tip!

- Robert L

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:
>
> njfranknj wrote:
> > Interesting, Tony, does that mean that it makes more sense to scan as
> > color neg and allow the software to make the color channel adjustment,
> > rather than scanning as "Media/Image" in VueScan and convert to
> > positive in a editing  program, as some suggest, for these "better
> > film scanners"? 
> 
> Vuescan uses the increased blue-green sensor output to 
> compensate the mask. This isn't a hardware feature but a 
> driver feature. Vuescan also has a variety of color negative 
> "profiles" for several types of color film, masks however 
> are influenced by the lab development so this isn't as 
> precise as with reversal film.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groeten,Ernst
> 
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