You mean that if you open the raw scan in Photoshop, click on the Channel
tab (instead of the Layers which are displayed by default) and select the
green channel, you don't see a satisfying image? If not, there's definitely
something wrong somewhere...
Alessandro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Nurk [mailto:ned_nurk@hotmail.com]
> Sent: mercoledì 23 gennaio 2002 18.47
> To: alessandro.pardi@inferentiadnm.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Problems scanning Porta 400 BW with
> SS4000/Vuescan
>
>
>
> 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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