On 6/6/2013 9:19 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
> With "Color Balance" set to None, there is no Black/White clipping setting.
>
> Please also remember to set "Slide vendor" to Generic and I also recommend
> sRGB instead of Adobe.
More than one way to skin a scan.
I set Color Balance to Neutral, which does expand the scan to fill the
histogram, without adjusting color balance.
I then set Black Point almost always to zero and white point to somewhere
between zero and 0.2, whatever is necessary to
retain real highlights and let those that are truly gone go. With the histogram
window open at the bottom, it's pretty
easy to get right.
Not uncommonly, that will push midtones too far down. That can be corrected in
VS, but I tend to wait for post.
But that may only make sense with my work flow. I scan in two steps. First is
to run all of a roll through the physical
scanner, 4-6 frames at a time on the FS4000, 12-30 on the 9950F, producing
"Raw" output files. None of the above
settings affect Raw output.
I then run Preview on one representative Raw file and set all the filter, color
and output parameters. When I then
Preview all the Raw files, their settings all default to what I've just set. So
with a roll like Harvest, color
settings, white and black points, etc. are all the same. I then "scan" the Raw
files as a batch to regular TIFFs, which
is automated and fairly quick.
With most rolls and subjects, most or all of the resulting image files will be
just right. If one or a handful are
special and need something different, I can go back and rescan from the Raw
files. Unless I'm testing something new, I
almost never have to go back and do another physical scan.
I've never seen any reason to restrict the color space in a scan. I have output
set to ProPhoto RGB and Monitor set to
sRGB. What is the advantage of sRGB output?
Scanning For Moose
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