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Subject: [OM] Re: When digital is no good...
From: Parzival Herzog <parzp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:00:35 -0500
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:03, Moose wrote:
>
> I see from another post that you are using VueScan. I have been using it
> for years and like it very much. BUT, without film profiles, scans,
> especially from negs, are soft looking.You can adjust the histogram in
> VueScan, but not the curve, so you can't adjust them to look punchy
> without losing highlights and/or shadows. Easy enough to bring up in PS,
> but quite unsatisfying right out of the box. You mention that you have
> created your own ICC profiles. Scanner? Film? Printer/ink/paper? Monitor?
>
> Film profiles make a huge difference for VueScan output with neg film.
> These sample scans with and without a film profile are just as they came
> out of VueScan on a Can*n FS4000, except for downsizing
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/VuesProf/index.htm>. I did a scanner
> profile with a slide IT8 target and it didn't seem to make much
> difference with negs. Haven't tried to see what it does with slides yet.

Other than the built-in negative film profiles that come with Vuescan, where 
do you obtain other profiles? Being a confirmed grocery store film 
photographer (i.e. poor,) I would sure like ones for Fuji Superia 100, 400 & 
800.

-- 
Parzival Herzog

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