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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Scanners being used/Color Scanning

2008-01-07 by Paul Grant

I would always scan as a positive and let your photo editing software do the
conversion.

Regards,
Paul


On 1/6/08 12:02 PM, "njfranknj" <kolwicz@minetfiber.com> wrote:

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> 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"? 
> 
> Are the Minolta ScanMultiPro and Epson V750 in that group?
> 
> Frank
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , Tony Sleep
> <TonySleep@...> wrote:
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>> > Better filmscanners increase the exposure (sampling time) in the blue +
>> > green channels to cancel the orange mask optically. Without that, a
> lot of 
>> > dynamic range is discarded when you subtract the mask colour in
> software.
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