Moose, that seems handy. I've got a Epson 4870 so I can scan 24 135-negs at
once but I still thinks it's a tedious job. Do you now if it's possible to
use the infra red "cleaning" that way too?
/ Johan
Den 06-01-24 05.59, skrev "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Rob Harrison wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty consistently disappointed with the scanned-at-development
>> scans I get, from anywhere, pro or minilab. And yet the process of
>> scanning them individually on my Epson 3200 is so tedious I rarely do
>> it. Perhaps I just need to 'get over it' and do it enough that it's
>> not such a production.
>>
>>
> At least you can scan 12 frames at once. My film scanner does six at
> once. The way I minimize the tedium is to scan to RAW with VueScan while
> I'm doing other things on the computer. What Ed calls RAW in this case
> is simply the output from the scanner put directly in a TIFF format file
> as it comes out of the scanner, so there is no post scan processing time
> at all. Every so often, the scanner spits out the film holder and I put
> in a new strip. By only doing the RAW scan, and by locking exposure
> where the frames are all about the same density, the time for the actual
> physical part of the scanning is minimized.
>
> Then I scan from file to reduced JPEG for viewing and full size TIFFs
> for editing. That all takes a while, as the program does its thing with
> adjusting histogram, color, etc. and creating the output files, but can
> be done any time and runs in background without any involvement in film
> handling. I also like to have the RAW files, as any frames that need
> different processing can just be rescanned from the file without going
> back to the film.
>
> Moose
>
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