Roland,
Very interesting, thank you for your note.
I love my Olympus Pen F and FT with its amazing Zuiko lens!
Please, send some pictures.
Regards,
J. Elbert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Ruehl" <roland.ruehl@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: [OM] PEN F Scanning Workflow [Spam]
> List,
>
> please ignore if you are not interested in half-frame.
>
> I finally fixed my half-format scanning work flow last night (I had
> asked a question about this a few weeks ago) and wanted to share the
> (simple, as it turns out) solution. I am using PEN FTs and a Minolta
> Multi II scanner. I started using the PENs last year, being attracted by
> their size (and lens size/weight) and sturdyness (I find them very sexy,
> too, but this might just be me ...). I got the Multi II cheap on the bay
> because it can also scan MF, and because of the availability of a 50
> slide feeder (the "SC 100", also cheap on the bay; the feeder and
> scanner together cost me around US 800).
>
> Here is the flow:
>
> * shoot positives; I use Velvia 50/100, or EVS
> * have your development shop frame the film, two pictures by frame;
> I sometimes do negatives, then I frame them by hand.
> * ignore the Minolta Software (can only autofocus on the center of
> the picture, which in my case is a black stripe)
> * Use Vuescan:
> o Batch mode will use the slide feeder
> o I set cropping to manual, and fix my crop box to the top
> half of my double (portrait) pictures.
> o Set the autofocus point to:
>
> <----- 35mm ---->
> +-----------------+
> | | |
> | x | |
> +-----------------+
>
> o I scan a batch of 50 double frames, giving me 50 half frame
> scans. Set color correction, exposure control, etc. to
> whatever you do normally.
> o I then take the batch out, turn it around, put it back in
> the slide feeder. Batch scan with the same settings to get
> the other 50 pictures.
> o The results at top resolution (2800 dpi) is 100 (ca.) 5
> Mpixel/48bit pictures (around 30 MByte TIF files).
>
> The whole flow only works because of perfect alignment of the
> half-frames - Thanks to Olympus... The alignment also allows you to
> fine-tune the cropping to get minimal black frame around the picture
> (and better scanner exposure). This flow should also be applicable to
> other scanners with batch feeders.
>
> If somebody is interested, I'll post some pictures this week.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland.
>
>
>
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