Problem is, there is hardly any green at all in the raw scan, it is bright
red!
>From: "Alessandro Pardi" <alessandro.pardi@inferentiadnm.com>
>Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>To: ned_nurk@hotmail.com
>Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Problems scanning Porta 400 BW with
>SS4000/Vuescan
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:26:40 +0100
>
>Ned,
>
>The b/w films I've been scanning with Vuescan (and a Canon FS4000) are TMax
>100, Ilford FP4+ and Portra400BW. What I found is that Vuescan cropped
>(i.e.
>processed) files are beautiful with TMax, using it's own profile in the
>film
>selection list, but with both FP4+ and Portra I get better result starting
>from the raw file and extracting the green channel (which has the best
>detail and the least noise on most scanners - YMMV). I have a simple
>Photoshop action that opens a raw file, inverts it, calls Channel mixer
>picking the green channel, and finally sets the image mode to Grayscale. It
>takes about forever on my old PentiumIII, but I scan a few frames and then
>let it run in batch mode for half an hour.
>Hope this may help.
>
>Alessandro Pardi
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ned Nurk [mailto:ned_nurk@hotmail.com]
>Sent: mercoledì 23 gennaio 2002 16.36
>To: alessandro.pardi@inferentiadnm.com
>Subject: [filmscanners] Problems scanning Porta 400 BW with SS4000/Vuescan
>
>
>Hi all
>
>Attempting to scan in some Kodak Port 400 B&W film with my SS4000 and
>Vuescan 7.4.2 and getting really poor scans.
>
>When I view the raw output file I can see that it is black & bright red
>rather than black & white (ish)
>
>the filmbase is quite reddish, like normal colour negatives.
>
>anybody got any suggestions?
>
>regards
>ned
>
>
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