No battle intended <g>.
Notice, I am shooting negs with a digicam and a lightbox (not scanning).
I have a Photoshop action that I use for the negatives, if you are really
interested. (I suspect I've already given you more info than you wanted
anyway <g>).
The steps you enumerate below I would consider to be trivial. Anyway, I'm
sidestepping the whole problem of cataloging negs by getting PictureCD's
made during processing, just for cataloging, then I scan at full resolution
the ones I really want (with Vuescan and Minolta Scan Speed).
I catalog my slides with a digicam and a light box, though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bucky
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:25 PM
> To: Pentax Peepl
> Subject: Re: Questions about film scanners (off-topic)
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>
> I feel I may have got myself into a battle over the meaning of "trivial".
>
> Although I have never HAD to do so, since VueScan compensates
> automatically, I've had good results like this:
>
> Scan the neg as if it were a slide; output in 16-bit color depth to
> Photoshop (although if you can't, 8-bit might be OK too; I've never really
> tried it). Include some of the unexposed film around the frame
> in the scan.
> In photoshop, set this unexposed color to be white, using the
> Curves control
> and the white eyedropper. Then invert (Ctrl + I) the image, making a
> positive out of a negative. Tweak
> the color and exposure as usual. You can also invert first, then set the
> border to be black.
>
> If there are other approaches that may be more technically correct, I am
> interested.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Tokarczuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:39 PM
> Subject: RE: Questions about film scanners (off-topic)
>
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bucky
> > >
> > > Most programs compensate for the mask automatically, but it is
> nontheless
> > > trivial to do in Photoshop, should you wish to.
> > >
> >
> > I have found it rather non-trivial. I use a light box and a
> digital camera
> > to catalog my negatives, and have to go through quite a set of
> machinations
> > to remove the negative mask.
> >
> > Do you have an easy way to do it?
> >
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