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 the

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 cases

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.

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's