> You will have to persevere to get the right effect from your
> scan, especially if your film is not available as an option in
> Vuescan.
I get my best scans from Vuescan if I turn ALL color correction,
brightness and profiles off. Just scan as an image, changing
the scanner exposure as necessary to achieve a full-width
histogram and save as a 48-bit RBG tiff.
Then I open the file in an editor, invert and set the
black/white points. It doesn't take me long to jump right to a
16bit grayscale, as I like to apply a color filter during the
monochrome process to make certain things jump out. Working
curves before the monochrome conversion is problematic for me as
I see the colors and not the brightness.
If I do mess around with the curves first, it's with specific
colors to achieve certain goals. For instance, the photo on my
homepage of Sunburst Lake, does a pretty slick conversion to BW
if I crank the saturation of the RED channel to obscene levels,
take the cyan and alter it to a deep blue. Then convert to
monochrome selecting the RED filter. If I've taken the green
channel and gaussan blurred it first, the result is a really
slick IR knockoff.
I hope to figure out how to get 12 stops of exposure latitude
out of my digital camera.
AG
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