Digital BW, The Print

Vuescan is now up to 4.1!

Julian
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Julian Thomas
Bruc 168-6-1
08037 Barcelona

Website at www.foundobjectsgallery.com

Gallery at http://www.mwords.co.uk/galleryGuests.htm#

Streetphotography at
http://www.borderless-photos.de/jthomas/jthomas-01.html

tfno 679676321

Hi guys,

First a little announcement. One of my Holga images was accepted into 
this years Annual Soho Krappy Kamera competition. 200 photographers 
submitted over 1200 images and they only choose 35 so I'm pleased and 
honored to have been chosen from such a large pool of excellent 
images and photographers.

Now back to digital print making where I am still learning and am so 
grateful to the wealth of talent and knowledge that makes up this 
fine board.

My question today is:

I just downloaded Vuescan and have only had a chance to view a couple 
so far. In comparison with the twain4 on my epson 1200u photo the 
image appears sharper but I have difficulty making corrections prior 
to final scan. I'm sure I'll figure it out but I thought in interest 
of time conservation I would shout out to you all for tips any of you 
have learned about settings or standard adjustments you make to 
assure best possible scan. I know each neg, transparancy, and even 
print will be different but are there some basic rules of attack to 
take to get the most out of the source. I noticed on bw negs there 
seems to be more information gleened by putting the setting on color 
neg rather than b/w. Any tips on best res target or are the auto 
settings pretty good on VS. Also, should I check the "sharpen" box 
and leave it as a default setting?

I'd appreciate any tips and suggestions you may have. I'm using a PC, 
win98, outputting to 1280 using OEM inks and papers for the moment 
although a CFS and MIS VM inks are probably in my near future.

Thanks,
Tim Timmermans

Tim,

first, congratulations on being among the 35.  Love the name of the 
competition too. Does the K in the spelling mean it's fake like Krab? Then it 
should be taken to mean fake crappy, like really really excellent. 
Ah.... never mind.

About Vuescan - which I own but very rarely use:  Keep in mind that if you can 
get a high-bit scan out of it, you can do basic steps (histo etc) in Photoshop, a 
much more comfortable image-editing environment.

Just my $.02 

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "timtimmermans7" 
<zenphoto7@a...> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> First a little announcement. One of my Holga images was accepted into 
> this years Annual Soho Krappy Kamera competition. 200 photographers 
> submitted over 1200 images and they only choose 35 so I'm pleased and 
> honored to have been chosen from such a large pool of excellent 
> images and photographers.
> 
> Now back to digital print making where I am still learning and am so 
> grateful to the wealth of talent and knowledge that makes up this 
> fine board.
> 
> My question today is:
> 
> I just downloaded Vuescan and have only had a chance to view a couple 
> so far. In comparison with the twain4 on my epson 1200u photo the 
> image appears sharper but I have difficulty making corrections prior 
> to final scan. I'm sure I'll figure it out but I thought in interest 
> of time conservation I would shout out to you all for tips any of you 
> have learned about settings or standard adjustments you make to 
> assure best possible scan. I know each neg, transparancy, and even 
> print will be different but are there some basic rules of attack to 
> take to get the most out of the source. I noticed on bw negs there 
> seems to be more information gleened by putting the setting on color 
> neg rather than b/w. Any tips on best res target or are the auto 
> settings pretty good on VS. Also, should I check the "sharpen" box 
> and leave it as a default setting?
> 
> I'd appreciate any tips and suggestions you may have. I'm using a PC, 
> win98, outputting to 1280 using OEM inks and papers for the moment 
> although a CFS and MIS VM inks are probably in my near future.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim Timmermans

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "antonisphoto" 
<antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> first, congratulations on being among the 35.  Love the name of the 
> competition too. Does the K in the spelling mean it's fake like 
Krab? Then it 
> should be taken to mean fake crappy, like really really excellent. 
> Ah.... never mind.
> 
> About Vuescan - which I own but very rarely use:  Keep in mind that 
if you can 
> get a high-bit scan out of it, you can do basic steps (histo etc) 
in Photoshop, a 
> much more comfortable image-editing environment.
> 
> Just my $.02 
> 
> Antonis
> 

Thanks Antonis for the congrats and for responding to my post. 
Why may I ask do you rarely use it? Do you not scan or are using 
something else like Silverfast?

Do you or does ANYONE have some basic standard settings that you use?
Bit rates for example. What is best as a default setting? 24bit?
Resolution...1200 dpi?
Is there a way to control the level of Sharpen. It seems too high so 
I disengage it.
So you suggest getting just the basic scan and doing all adjustments 
in PS? Do you make adjustments after previewing or do you just 
crop/frame and scan?

Thanks, Tim Timmermans

I have a question concerning VUEscan. I've been through every panel in
the advanced mode, but I can't find a thing on adjusting levels or
curves. Also, the highest resolution I can scan at for the Agfa T2500 is
1250 DPI.  That isn't good enough for 6x6 films, I need the full 2500
DPI.  Am I missing something, or doesn't vuescan support higher DPI or
levels or curves? Also, VUEscan runs directly from its folder on the
desktop. SHouldn't it actually be installed in the system folder? There
is no installation program to do this.

Thanks

Jerry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> I have a question concerning VUEscan. I've been through every panel 
in
> the advanced mode, but I can't find a thing on adjusting levels or
> curves. Also, the highest resolution I can scan at for the Agfa 
T2500 is
> 1250 DPI.  That isn't good enough for 6x6 films, I need the full 
2500
> DPI.  Am I missing something, or doesn't vuescan support higher DPI 
or
> levels or curves? Also, VUEscan runs directly from its folder on the
> desktop. SHouldn't it actually be installed in the system folder? 
There
> is no installation program to do this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jerry

Jerry,
I have a Microtek 2500,which I think is the same as the Duoscan.
I have only sampled Vuescan, but it seems to work well.  Try the 
following to get 2500 DPI: in the device tab go into the scan mode 
box.  Select Transparency X2  This will double the resolution and 
activate the 4" high resolution area.
Hope this helps.
Peter