Sounds like a lot of work. I can't fault the scans i get from Epson Scan even with pixel peeping scrutiny. But I ill attempt this as an experiment. In brief, you're saying you do a flat scan in Vuescan then use Vuescan tools to correct it? Where in Vuescan do you choose "raw workflow?"" On Oct 25, 2013, at 9:08 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote:
> on 2013-10-25 12:17 Paul Stenquist wrote >> With the Epson V500, there was little fine control of the various functions. >> For example, when trying to set black point movement of the control would >> provide almost no discernible difference, but when the control was pushed to >> a certain point, the whole thing would fall off the cliff and a drastic >> change would be generated. Same thing with low and high curves. Plus after >> tweaking the preview, the resulting scan wouldn't match. > > tip: tweaking the preview is not especially accurate; instead i would suggust > using Vuescan's "raw" workflow; this gathers the the "uncorrected" data from > the scanner, essentially a 16-bit TIFF with flat gamma curve; this data can > then be interactively reprocessed in VueScan to optimize the parameters > without the need to rescan the source (saving a lot of time); if you are > doing a batch, the optimized parameters can then be saved as a preset and > automated > > or you can save the raw data as TIFF (or DNG, but not much point in that) and > use Lightroom or whatever to do (and/or automate) your adjustments > > Epson's drivers may now be okay, but my history (going back to early 90s) is > to distrust the proprietary drivers that are provided through (not by) Apple; > too often they have added unwanted background processes or even caused > system-wide problems; last i tried were Canon's mid-2000s drivers, which had > nasty USB side-effects and i removed them quickly > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
