Before I forget, vuescan by default does a small amount o f clipping at the white level. This is a parameter to set . There is also a place to toggle the scanner to turn cli pped areas to say red so you can judge the effects of cli pping. Sometimes a few specs of blownout pixels is better than a too dark image. Or you can set it up not to blow out any pixels, then tweak in photoshop.
I would say s pend a few hours with Vuescan before doing serious work. -----Original Message----- From: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] svision.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:45:51 To:list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Help With V uescan gary wrote: > The good news is I run a 5400-II with Vuescan. The bad news is I haven't > a clue why yo urs isn't working. > > Did you run that calibration ste p that the software requests? :::embarrassed::: Yes, a fter I read your email! Vuescan works just fine now and t he results are beautiful. Thank you. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] nochsvision.com wrote: >> Yesterday I tried to use Vuesc an but it was frustrating. Here's the situation: my old >> Nikon LS4000 is in urgent need of cleaning. I had a Mi nolta 5400-II on the shelf in an >> unopened box. Right after I bought it Minolta abandoned the business so I jus t forgot >> about the unit. Now I need to use it. Minolt a's software is worse than awful. Any >> adjustment in t he scanner interface at all blows out all the highlights. I have hundreds >> of valuable and faded historical ima ges to restore. >> >> So, Vuescan to the rescue. No mat ter how I set the input and output options I get >> noth ing. The preview scan is dark gray and the output is just a file with all black >> pixels. I don't remember that ever happening before but I haven't used Vuescan for a > > couple of years. What glaringly obvious mistake am I ma king? I am clueless. -- Cary Enoch Reinstein... aka enochsvision, Enoch's Vision Inc. Photography, Poetry ht tp://www.enochsvision.com Baha'i History: http://www.vie wsofakka.com Blog: http://enochsvision.wordpress.com Vi deos: http://www.youtube.com/enochsvision9 Behind all th ese manifestations is the one radiance, which shines thro ugh all things. The function of art is to reveal this ra diance through the created object. - Joseph Campbell -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners ' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
