filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan & VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian wrote: > I think Ed would make it much more user friendly if the > exposure algorithm automatically applied a buffer which > blanks out the outer 10% of the image from exposure > calculations. That's what the border and buffer settings are for. But as mentioned recently there are some cas

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan & VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-25 Thread Rob Geraghty
Alessandro wrote: >I'm stuck with the 8 bits of my LS-30 :-( >I could try Vuescan and see if the white/black point settings actually work >at scan phase, looking at the raw file (if this worked, it would also give >me the benefit of 10 bits). I haven't had much luck with Vuescan until now, >but th

filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Nikon Scan & VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-06 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian wrote: > setting only appears if you have "Negative" selected rather > than "Positive" for your film type - IOW it is not available > for slides. Maybe you were set to slides the day you looked > in there. Sorry Julian - when I looked last night I had the slide adapter in the LS30 so that

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Nikon Scan & VS Negative dynamic range

2001-09-06 Thread Rob Geraghty
Julian wrote: >Hmm - maybe this is one of those things that Nikon withheld from LS30 / >LS40 (I have the LS2000). You may be right, but I thought you were still using 2.51. I never looked for the settings you described when I was still running that version - because I used Vuescan instead.