Ed,
Just downloaded 6.4.8 and it seems to have solved the problem - perfect
scan of a negative that before was very dark using 6.4.1. Back to the
usual excellence of VueScan.
Thanks
John Hinkey wrote:
>
> I too have experienced the same exact problem with my SS4000. I'm
> running version 6.4.1. Like you slide scanning is perfectly normal. I
> thought it was just me having a setting somewhere out of wack, but the
> last few negatives I've scanned were VERY dark - thus requiring the
> brightness to be set something like 50 or so. The resulting scan is
> useable with a lot of tweeking in Vuescan and Photoshop. The negative
> looks pretty well exposed.
>
> Ed - what do you think could be the problem?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some trouble with scanning negatives in the lastest Vuescan
> > releases, 6.47 and 6.4.8 running under Win98 with a Canoscan FS2710.
> >
> > When using all default settings, when I preview or use a full scan, the
> > images come out black. If I boost the Brightness to 50, they appear to be
> > inverted along with a very severe cyan cast on top of the inversion. The
> > scans also seem to be excessively noisy or grainy. I have an example at:
> >
> > http://www.lawair.com/vue/cyan.jpg
> >
> > Now, if I change the media type from color negative to image and reduce the
> > brightness to .2, I get an image that looks normal, but with very little
> > saturation.
> >
> > http://www.lawair.com/vue/image.jpg
> >
> > Like I said, these scans were made with default settings. The color balance
> > is White Point. If I use other color balance settings (auto levels,
> > neutral, etc) I will get different color casts like yellow or green.
> > Chaning the film type makes a slight difference in the hue and intesity of
> > the casts, but no substanive difference. Same with using different color
> > spaces.
> >
> > For reference, I reinstalled Vuescan 6.3.4 (the next most recent version of
> > Vuescan that I have) and scanning negatives worked without a hitch. Same
> > with using the Canon software to scan negatives. Slide scanning in 6.4.8
> > works fine as well.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Jeremy I. Caplan
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> John Hinkey
> Seattle, Washington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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