From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vuescan is, as you have written, designed to get all that the scanner can get from
film. Default black and white point settings extend far wider than you might want in
a final image. Changing Vuescan's
Sassan writes ...
I am saving BW images as 16bit tiff gray scale. Should these be
saved as 48bit ?
48bits implies color (3 16bit channels). Save your b/w scans as 48bits
only if you want to artificially add color.
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Is there also a manual exposure control (similar to Analog
Sassan writes ...
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I am using VueScan 7.5 (beta ?)
Update your version of Vuescan. Vs versions later than 7.5.14 are very
solid with all Nikons. http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html ...
... and NikonScan 3.1.0, and the default
settings for VueScan generally produces images that are
This is how Vuescan is designed to work - to NOT clip any highlights or
shadows, but to leave that for postprocessing in PS or other program where
you can examine the image more closely and determine what if any endpoint
clipping to do, and set your black and white point with much more accuracy.
At 10:55 PM 4/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I have had a Nikon LS-30 scanner for over a year now and until
recently it was being used occasionally to scan images that I needed
to post to a web page or send via email. A couple of months ago,
though, I started looking into how to capture the most from
