Re: filmscanners: Scanner resolution

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:09:48 -0400  Larry Berman (larry@bermanart.com) 
wrote:

>  I then rescanned the two images using the multi pass mode with 
> VueScan to get the best results. But even that didn't have the shadow 
> detail that was evident on viewing his slides on a light box.

The SS4000 tends to miss very little IME. At a guess, the shadow detail 
was actually there, but compressed. You may be able to retrieve a bit of 
contrast there by editing the curve at the shadow end. However you will 
quickly hit noise problems if you push it too far.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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