Nils Frohberg wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I didn't get out shooting film much this year. In order to ease my bad
>conscience, I wrote a very elementary scanning application for my FS4000.
>Up to now, it can't do much more than scan stuff and write it into a TIFF
>file, invert a negative, and remove the orange film mask (& compute the
>orange mask from a clean CN strip). [Fortunately, the FS4000 is sane
>enough to speak real "scanner SCSI2", unlike many SCSI scanners.]
>
>This is not supposed to be a fancy picture editing software. In fact, it
>doesn't have any graphical frontend. You basically tell it which frame to
>scan on your film holder, and the size/offset/dpi, and it goes to work.
>
>The output is not meant to look nice, but rather to keep all information
>in the file. You have to use picture editing software to adjust color
>tint, gamma, etc. (why reinvent the wheel?)
>
>The next thing I want to implement is getting the alpha channel filled
>with IR data, and enable multiple passes of a picture (also with
>different exposure setting in the scanner to fill the higher bits in the
>TIFF file.) I also have to try to get better contrast out of CN, it
>is very dull after I inverted it.
>
>Does anybody have an idea for any other useful function? I.e., something
>that shouldn't be done in postediting? Or am I the only strange guy in
>town that wants be be sure that the raw data from the scanner is on disk
>to be messed around with by programs that were written for that exact
>purpose (Photoshop, PWP, aso..)?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nils
>
>BTW: Yeah, I know VueScan is great, but it doesn't run on my computer
>platform. :)
>
>
>
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