As always, Ken, you make me want to go and try something out. This
time it is my latest 120 film from Northumberland...
Thanks for your advice.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 11 Aug 2005, at 17:45, AG Schnozz wrote:
>> 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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