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[filmscanners] RE: Better DOF than Nikon?
> From: Conrad Chavez
>
> My LS-2000 DOF drives me up the wall on curled
> negatives. A few weeks ago there were some that I
> absolutely had to print, but no matter where I set the
> focus point in VueScan, some area was out of focus.
> What I ended up doing was creating multiple scans with
> focus points set to "near" and "far" parts of the neg
> so that all areas of the negative were in focus, just
> not in the same file. From there I Shift-dragged the
> files on top of each other into a single Photoshop
> file and used layer masks to blend all the sharp parts
> together into a single sharp scan. One problem with
> this method is that the scans can be slightly
> different in dimensions where they warp, so you may
> have to apply very slight distortion (a few pixels)
> with the Transform tool to avoid softness caused by
> misregistration. Temporary use of the Difference layer
> mode will show you what's out of register.
Yep. That's what I'm willing to spend $1000-$1500 to avoid having to do on a
couple hundred slides.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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