Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
I am trying to scan Plus-X 125 and Tri-X negs on my LS2000. The scans come out with the tones either completely blocked up or burned out, with no midtones and no gradations of tones at all. You can't even make out the features in the images. These are well-exposed negatives that I've printed in the darkroom, with a good range of tones. I tried scanning to both RGB and grayscale, with and without Nikon CMS enabled, and with the analog controls tweaked all over the place. Still the same result; nothing worked to produce anything usable at all. I should note that I've had much better success with T400CN negs. I can scan these to either RGB or grayscale with a pretty good range of tones (although the RGB scans will come out with a slight, unpredictable color cast). This is probably a dumb question but have you disabled ICE? -- Lawrence W. Smith Photography http://www.lwsphoto.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
I am trying to scan Plus-X 125 and Tri-X negs on my LS2000. The scans come out with the tones either completely blocked up or burned out, with no midtones and no gradations of tones at all. You can't even make out the features in the images. These are well-exposed negatives that I've printed in the darkroom, with a good range of tones. I tried scanning to both RGB and grayscale, with and without Nikon CMS enabled, and with the analog controls tweaked all over the place. Still the same result; nothing worked to produce anything usable at all. This is probably a dumb question but have you disabled ICE? Excellent question! No, I did not do that. I went ahead and disabled that, too, and now I can scan my Plus-X 125 and Tri-X negatives nicely! Thanks to all who replied! Regards Gaspar
Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
gandve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone find a satisfactory solution to scanning BW negatives using the LS-2000? Is there any hope that this could be made to work? It depends on the density of the negs. Try Vuescan with multiple passes. Rob
Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
Gaspar I have successfully scanned many BW negatives on my LS30. In view of the fact that this is a lesser spec than the LS2000, you should get satisfactory results with your scanner. What is wrong with your scans? Simon Gaspar wrote: Has anyone find a satisfactory solution to scanning BW negatives using the LS-2000? Is there any hope that this could be made to work?
Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
Simon Lamb wrote: Gaspar I have successfully scanned many BW negatives on my LS30. In view of the fact that this is a lesser spec than the LS2000, you should get satisfactory results with your scanner. What is wrong with your scans? Simon Exactly agree. The first thing was to turn off the Nikon Colour Management and you cant use ICE. There is a setting for grey scale in Nikon Scan 2.5 and the current 3.1 (haven't looked if this turns off the NCM tho maybe it does.) Can scan BW fine without problems. Rob Gaspar wrote: Has anyone find a satisfactory solution to scanning BW negatives using the LS-2000? Is there any hope that this could be made to work?
Re: filmscanners: LS-2000 B/W Negatives
Gaspar I have successfully scanned many BW negatives on my LS30. In view of the fact that this is a lesser spec than the LS2000, you should get satisfactory results with your scanner. What is wrong with your scans? Simon I am trying to scan Plus-X 125 and Tri-X negs on my LS2000. The scans come out with the tones either completely blocked up or burned out, with no midtones and no gradations of tones at all. You can't even make out the features in the images. These are well-exposed negatives that I've printed in the darkroom, with a good range of tones. I tried scanning to both RGB and grayscale, with and without Nikon CMS enabled, and with the analog controls tweaked all over the place. Still the same result; nothing worked to produce anything usable at all. I should note that I've had much better success with T400CN negs. I can scan these to either RGB or grayscale with a pretty good range of tones (although the RGB scans will come out with a slight, unpredictable color cast). I'll probably shoot T400CN (or some other color processing compatible B/W film) for scanning, but it seems I can't do anything with the silver B/W emulsion film I've already shot :-( What B/W films have you scanned successfully on your LS30? Thanks Gaspar
