Digital BW, The Print

> Completely agree Steve. I tried Vuescan and soon went back to 
> Nikonscan for the same reasons. The third party software cannot make 
> the scanner do more than its original manufacturers designed it for, 

Well, that's assuming the original manufacturers know how to make even
half-decent scanning software. With my FS4000 and Canon FilmGet that's
not the case.

With Ilford XP2 I get consistently blown out highlights and clipped
shadows, and it refuses to do dust removal with this film. I've tried
everything, but it just doesn't want to scan this film. Vuescan works
much better, although dust removal is problematic since it softens the
image. I've solved this by scanning the negatives as 64bit RGBI TIFF
files and doing the dust removal in photoshop with an action I made.

I recently shot a roll of Kodak HIE which I accidentally overexposed.
The negatives were extremely dense, but still had detail in them.
FilmGet couldn't do anything useful with them, again I got clipped
highlights and shadows, but in Vuescan I could extract all the detail by
increasing the exposure to very high values.

So at least for me Vuescan can do things that simply isn't possible with
the supplied software.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no