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Subject: [OM] Re: Irritating question #183--Which scanner to get
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:43:13 -0800
GFaulk7376@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi Moose,
>Somehow I missed your Vuescan work flow summary. I just purchased a Nikon 
>Coolscan V and downloaded Vuescan. My first attempts with this scanner and 
>software have been good, but would like to see how someone else does it.
>  
>
Well, it was less than 24 hours ago, but here's the relevant bits:
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>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.

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>Johan Malmstrom wrote:
>  
>
>> 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?
>>
> Yes. The cleaning is done in the second step, scanning from the RAW 
> files. The first step must be both scanned and written as 64 bit RGBI, 
> so that the infrared channel is recorded in the RAW file. That makes 
> the physical scan slower on my scanner. The infrared requires a second 
> pass of the scanner head, as there is no separate sensor for infrared. 
> The 4870 is probably the same in that regard.
> I suppose the red channel sensor is used through a filter or some such 
> arrangement. In any case, it is worth it to me to get clean scans.

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Moose


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