Nice images, Ken. While it is nice to be able to use the old Olympus
gear, which I sorely miss, the transition of film to digital is such a
massive PITA I just can't see going to the trouble. That being said I love
the setting. Quite the fixer-upper. Love the outhouse uphill from the
dwelling.
Charlie
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:58 PM Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://zone-10.com/d1/node/343
>
> Stonewall. An old mining building south of St. Elmo, Colorado, along
> the 4wd road to Hancock Lake. Olympus OM-4T with OM Lenses 24/2.8 and
> 50/3.5. Fujichrome Velvia. From 2009.
>
> Images are scanned using the Nikon Coolscan V-ED and Vuescan.
> Processed in Lightroom. Details to follow...
>
> The images are a touch grainy, which is not uncommon for single-pass
> Velvia scans on the Nikon. Any images destined for high-quality prints
> will be subject to a 5 or 6-pass scanning process. The more passes,
> the lower the grain. One pass is sharpest, three is least sharp, 5 or
> 6 passes is sharp again as the sample variability is averaged out.
>
> Viewscan is configured for "image", tiff output, manual color, (1,1,1)
> and 0% white, 0% black. Medium dust removal. No cropping--include the
> mount. No skew correction and absolutely no anti-aliasing.
>
> As a starting point in Lightroom, these are my initial adjustments
> that I can use to correct for the digitization process and give me a
> baseline to work from - otherwise, it's always a tail-chasing exercise
> as each image is a solo expedition:
>
> Highlights: -100
> Shadows: +100
> Whites: +65 (or so, this is just a starting point)
> Blacks: -5 (or so, this is just a starting point)
> Texture: +10
> Clarity: +10
> Dehaze: +10
> Vibrance: +10
> Sharpening: +50
> Luminance Noise Reduction: +15
> Color Noise Reduction: +100
> Remove Chromatic Aberration: Checked
>
> Provia is similar.
>
> Again, this is just a starting point. This is also based on how I
> happen to expose my images. But what I have found is that there is a
> HUGE amount of information hidden in the shoulder and toe that is
> missing in the initial scan and may not even be apparent on the light
> table.
>
> There will be a LOT of adjustment to this as i go back to revisit the
> library with the settings and see where my default start point should
> be.
>
> Also note that I'm not at all happy with the graininess of the images
> in this process. The tradeoff is low-noise (grain) and flat, or
> high-noise (grain) and colorful and "current" image styles. Sharpening
> can be increased a lot past this point if the mask is adjusted to just
> clear the threshold of the grain.
>
> AG Schnozz
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