Hi David, > The last I checked, Vuescan doesn't have a curves tool, although it's high > on the author's list of things to add. What it does have support for is > color calibration.
Some of the scanner software has film profiling, and I've done quite a bit of work with it, unfortunately, that only sort of works. There are variables in film development, and exposure that will render profiles only somewhat useful. They get you in ballpark, but you still typically have some work to do. How does the color calibration in VS work? To close the calibration loop, you really need to take a picture of a known target and do so for each film/development/camera and/or lense (as different lenses render colors differently) etc., and even then there may be other variables that makes it not work as well as you might hope...like exposure/development etc. The only way to close the loop somewhat is to take a picture of a color target on each roll...which I did routinely when doing commercial work. I've color calibrated one of my flatbeds using a color target (and the scanner software that came with it) and it worked OK. I'm sure for some people, they may be perfectly happy with that type of open loop calibration, and given Viewscan's audience, that, no matter how Ed did it, unless he really did it wrong... is probably a great feature, and well worth the price of admission for people who want more automated scanning. Regards, Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
