RE: digital proofing of negatives
I scan my negs in Print File neg sheets on my Epson 4990 scanner. Yes, you would have to organize them into sheets of similar size negs but this works really well. I keep a file called "digicontacts" and view them either in Windows picture and fax viewer or in Frotoshop both allowing me to enlarge and rotate the images. This works just fine for sorting and deciding which to print. This isn't the cheapest alternative but, once you get the hang of it, it works really quickly and well. CHEERS! BOB PS: As I still do quite a bit of commercial B&W, most of my clients prefer digicontact sheets e-mailed to them over printed contact sheets that need to be delivered. -----Original Message----- From: Ryuji Suzuki [mailto:rs@silvergrain.org] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:54 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: digital proofing of negatives I make my digital proofs with an Epson Perfection V700, a film-quality flatbed scanner, without removing the films out of the sleeves. I use clear polyethylene pages (PrintFile) and scan half page at a time. Use Vuescan or any other decent scanner software, adjust exposure and everything (make a profile), and make good use of the button on the scanner to make the process efficient. The resolution isn't that great because of the plastic pages and also imperfect contact/flatness, but why bother. I think I use 800-1200dpi range for scanning. Also, if you do color negatives or slides, the color is almost guaranteed to be wrong and there is no good way to correct it. It works well enough for b&w, at least just as good as sandwitching on a piece of photographic paper to make contact proof, but you'll get more details. If any of the tabloid scanners could scan transparent material of about 8x12 inches or larger, you could speed up the process at twice the cost of the scanner. (But I doubt any of then would do that...) More of a problem is how to manage the proof images thus obtained. Lightroom is a wrong tool... but don't know what's a better option for this. -- Ryuji Suzuki "Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986) __________ NOD32 3246 (20080707) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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