Thanks for the kind offer Chris. I think though, I may have come up
with an easier way - I have a target slide that I have scanned at
4000dpi to get as much detail as possible. I have put up a couple of
images of the slide as it is scanned by Vuescan. Neither one has any
processing apart from being turned into jpgs.
The full frame image shows all the colour and b/w gradations which look
pretty good to me. The woman's face, however is illustrative of what
I'm finding with my scans; it's dull and lifeless and needs a fair bit
of adjustment to get to the natural skin tone I see on the slide, and I
can't always get close to the slide.. Maybe this is normal and I just
need to calibrate and profile, using one of the links David's sent me?
The other question I've been asking myself is whether the scan should
be sharper. The detail image shows actual pixels from the scan. Does
this look about right for 4000dpi, or should it be sharper? Obviously
some detail is lost in the jpg, but it does look virtually
indistinguishable from the original tif.
I really would appreciate any views on this, as it's been getting to me
for some time.
James
On 8 Jun 2004, at 6:48 pm, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> If you are in UK, James, feel free to send me a slide or 2 to scan for
> you. I am no expert, but that might help you to narrow down where lies
> the source of your dissatisfaction.
>
> Chris
>
> On 7 Jun 2004, at 23:32, James Royall wrote:
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>>
>> Just great. A superb shot which you seem to have made the most of in
>> post.
>>
>> And I feel distinctly jealous as I struggle right now to get some kind
>> of life into the slides I'm scanning. All detail goes out of the
>> shadows and the punch just disappears. Using the shadow highlight
>> function just makes everything look flat.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
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