Great Idea!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:41 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Re: Autoexposure problem in Vuescan
> I have taken to leaving a deliberately blank frame on every
> film in order to scan it for the mask. Sometimes I find
> Vuescan's results better with these settings, and sometimes
> not; I have to try it and see. Perhaps this is because I
> have a Scanwit, on which Vuescan can't control the exposure.
>
> BTW, after suffering a processor's lost film mixup, I also
> photograph another frame from the computer screen showing my
> name & address (and a bit of Ed Hamrick's Vueprint test
> chart).
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan T
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob Geraghty <harper@wordweb.com>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:11 AM
> Subject: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Autoexposure
> problem in Vuescan
>
>
> > > .....The problem is that VueScan is expecting there to
> be some
> > > part of the scanned image to be somewhat unexposed. If
> > > you're taking pictures of the sky, the negative is
> usually
> > > quite dark and VueScan mis-computes the color of the
> orange mask........
> >
>
>
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