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[OM] Re: Vuescan color profile problem {WAS:Don't cry, just do it! [was

Subject: [OM] Re: Vuescan color profile problem {WAS:Don't cry, just do it! [was Velvia 50 replacement]}
From: "Michael Wong" <mialop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:56:47 +0800
Thanks, Nils. I know what's wrong I have done ............. ~_~

-- 
Michael

An Olympus OM system fans


2007/6/14, Nils Frohberg <nilsf@xxxxxxx>:
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:50:52PM +0800, Michael Wong wrote:
> >
> > Just got a failed experience :(
> >
> > I put an unexposured frame into scanner & preview in Vuescan, and then
> > select "lock exposure" & preview again. I select "lock film base
> > color" upon preview. I changed an exposured frame into scanner &
> > preview ............. but came out a full dark image .......... ~_~
>
> Be sure that you don't lock image color on a blank film strip. IIRC
> Vuescan sets the film's intensity range to a fixed value with this. A
> blank film strip is only white (slide) or black (negative), so the white
> and black points are almost at the same level.
>
> Rather take the picture with the darkest shadows and the brightest
> highlights and lock image color on this. You won't get overly-clipped
> blacks and whites in any of your images then.
>
> Depending on the pictures you took, you might not want/need image color
> lock anyhow. If you have a frame with a dim lightbulb that you want to
> have white you'll have to adjust the white level over a frame where you
> captured the sun.
>
> Nils
>
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