![]() ![]() Thanks for the input! Evidently I still have much to learn. The samples of the dogs shows different contrast, contrast plays an important role in apparent sharpness, and it also looks like that the lab scan applied more sharpening than the epson one. You’re scanning in TIFF which is what “you’re suppsoed to do “, however makes editing painful especially in the size you are scanning, unless you have a very very fast computer, Which I am sure you noticed.Ĭamera Labs scanners are pretty good actually, however I hate their auto correction programs, and, you have no control over it makes it worst. Some friends I know will scan at 4800 and then resize it to smaller for sharper effect. Like I said before, I only scan 2400 dpi that’s sufficient for most things. ![]() Also, negative flatness, pops, and some other variables also need to be factored in.īigger scans doesn’t always means it’s better. I’ll avoid try to “make a perfect scan” from the scanners software, instead you should work towards a “workable scan”.Ībout sharpness, it has lots to do with sharpening parameters too, personally I will try and avoid using too much sharpen in epson scan, I apply specific sharpening sequences later, if I have to. You should turn down the auto exposure in preference so the scan is flatter. I’m no expert on doing these kind of tests, maybe I got something wrong, but I mean, how do you argue with that? I’d be more disappointed if it had cost me money, but believe me, I don’t think I’ll ever buy one. What’s with that? I certainly wasn’t expecting the camera store’s scanner to be so much sharper than the Epson! This really negates the reason for scanning at such a high resolution in the first place. Then I decided to see just how sharp those 4800 dpi images actually were: Also, I thought that scanning at 4800 dpi would give me more detailed images. It’s great for correcting colors when things don’t turn out the way you want them to, but if you’re using fresh film properly exposed, I think you’d be better off with just the standard scans. I had lots of trouble scanning some of the images without little annoying dots all over the picture, something to do with changing the colors too drastically, I believe. You know, honestly, I’m not altogether happy with the results of the scans. Maybe it just got more light than the others, I’m not sure, but I tried to get it as close as possible to the first image. This is the Superia Look that was missing for most of the album. This is the only picture that came out looking like it should. Standard scan – the dog hiding from the evil thunder. I’m always ready to learn new things, now that I have some (free!) equipment with which to play around. I think I’ll have to search around for a good book on digital scanning. Standard scan – Katy playing at the Pike’s Peak or Bust Rodeo It’s good to have the camera store scans as a baseline, to tell me when I’m losing too much information due to incompetence. ![]() I bumped up the saturation a bit when scanning in some cases, played around with the color shifts, but I’m no wizard with the scanner (yet). The scans from the camera store came out somewhat bland, I thought, and makes me wonder just how expired this film is. I used expired film this time, a roll of Fujicolor 200 that I picked up at a thrift store for 50c, overexposed 1 stop. At least with slides, if I do my job right with the camera, everything looks the way it should automatically. Having the power to do adjustments is somewhat annoying I’ve found, and depending on how particular one is about their images, can take a long time. Standard scan Epson scan – my friend’s son I wrote down some standard settings on a piece of paper. One gripe about the Epson software: zooming in on any previewed image resets the scan settings! If you have some settings that work well, but you want to fine-tune things, even where the edges of the image are, and all the settings reset. Standard scan – it looked more interesting on the road, I guess… Anyway, I prefer to get all I need from the scan rather than endlessly alter things in Photoshop. Then again, I’d only use TIFF if I were planning to work on a picture in Photoshop, and it would be pretty annoying having to get one finished and either uploaded to Cloud or saved on a flash drive, then deleted from the hard drive before I could scan the next. Well, actually the school is their greedy ways kept me from scanning medium format images to TIFF. It’s good I know that now, instead of taking things out on the equipment, I’m the one who’s to blame. It seems I’m only allowed to save a maximum of 1.5GB on a school computer, and after that things just don’t save. I had lots of problems last time, which I seem to have gotten around now, it just took a little brainpower. ![]()
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