Here's an indirect solution you might find useful until you find a better scanner.
My LS-2000 DOF drives me up the wall on curled negatives. A few weeks ago there were some that I absolutely had to print, but no matter where I set the focus point in VueScan, some area was out of focus. What I ended up doing was creating multiple scans with focus points set to "near" and "far" parts of the neg so that all areas of the negative were in focus, just not in the same file. From there I Shift-dragged the files on top of each other into a single Photoshop file and used layer masks to blend all the sharp parts together into a single sharp scan. One problem with this method is that the scans can be slightly different in dimensions where they warp, so you may have to apply very slight distortion (a few pixels) with the Transform tool to avoid softness caused by misregistration. Temporary use of the Difference layer mode will show you what's out of register. Yes, it is a major, major pain in the behind to get around the DOF problem. But I got the prints out. --- "Paul D. DeRocco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > time-consuming. Second, some of the > slides have ripples in them that even glass > sandwiches won't take out. I > really think that increased DOF is the only way I'll > ever get decent files > out of these. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
