Mario, Do you mean that for FP4/FP5 its much better to adjust contrast during scanning than in photoshop?
Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "M�rio Teixeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:43 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning B&W negatives > > I wrote: > > | , I will begin with my old B&W negatives (several hundreds), mainly Ilford > | FP4 and HP5, many of them more than 30 years old > ..........| > | I intend to: scan at 4000 ppi, gray scale 16 bits; "dynamic range" -- > | automatic, but all the other tunings in the scanning software (including > | unsharp mask) disabled; save the raw scans as TIF. I don't intend to > "work" > | the photos in the scanner, but after in Photoshop. > > Ho ho, that's not so easy!... With B&W I must "make decisions" before > getting the "untouched archival scan" -- with very contrasted or very > uniform > scenes, underexposed or overexposed negatives, etc, I must tune manually the > "dynamic range" (sometimes dramatic cuts in the histogram) or I will not get > good results in Photoshop. > > And not several hundreds but a few thousands -- digital retouching is a > miracle! > > I thank very much all the help and suggestions that I received. > > Best regards, > > M�rio Teixeira > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >
