In article , Giles <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I have question about this rotation thing. I have used an HP flat
>bed scanner and you could scan using HPs software or you could scan
>within an imaging software application called Photostyler - a scaled
>down Photoshop. Is it impossible to use the scan function within an
>application to drive the Coolscan? Have Nikon failed to provide
>appropriate drivers? If you could scan from within Photoshop you
>would surely be able to do the rotation.
The version I have uses the TWAIN compliant scan software, so you can
scan within an application, but it goes through Nikons interface to do
so. This means that the rotation must be done in the software after
control has returned to it from the TWAIN interface. Thats not such a
problem, but preview in portrait mode certainly is.
>
>I have a question about scanning negatives. I have allways presumed
>you can scan a negative and convert the negative image into a
>positive via software? If this is so, I would presume the quality of
>the scan would be better than a scan of a print made from the
>negative - is this the case? Would you also get an increase in range
>of contrast compared with a print?
>
It certainly appears to be a lot better, and the contrast range is much
greater than the 24bit range of the scanner, since it has 'shadow' and
'highlight' spot metering functions just like the OM-4 to get the best
settings for the A to D converters.
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