Re: filmscanners: Polaroid 4000 dpi

[Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>]

> Not sure what you're doing that's "extreme", but with my Sprintscan 35/ES
> (same as "plain" 35 I think), using Ed's Vuescan with the scan count set
> to eight passes, noise in the shadows is reduced quite a lot, and the time
> it takes isn't too horrible so long as I'm only doing a few slides.  :-)

EIGHT passes?! Even if I was scanning just one slide, I doubt I would be
patient enough for that....

If I'm doing a slide for subsequent reproduction in print, I may gaussian
blur the darkest areas, then use Photoshop's grain filter to give them
texture comparable to the rest of the image. I figure that dot gain in the
printed version would lose most of the detail in the really dense areas
anyway; but if I left the noise uncorrected, some of it might be barely
visible.

Obviously this is NOT a preferred method of working! The two pix I sold
recently to Discover magazine (I emailed the scans to them) came out okay,
but still, I am looking forward to a scanner that doesn't create tracks
through shadows.

--CP