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Subject: [OM] Re: Portra at Minilabs WAS Negatives question
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:59:32 -0800
Rob Harrison wrote:

>I'm pretty consistently disappointed with the scanned-at-development  
>scans I get, from anywhere, pro or minilab. And yet the process of  
>scanning them individually on my Epson 3200 is so tedious I rarely do  
>it. Perhaps I just need to 'get over it' and do it enough that it's  
>not such a production.
>  
>
At least you can scan 12 frames at once. My film scanner does six at 
once. The way I minimize the tedium is to scan to RAW with VueScan while 
I'm doing other things on the computer. What Ed calls RAW in this case 
is simply the output from the scanner put directly in a TIFF format file 
as it comes out of the scanner, so there is no post scan processing time 
at all. Every so often, the scanner spits out the film holder and I put 
in a new strip. By only doing the RAW scan, and by locking exposure 
where the frames are all about the same density, the time for the actual 
physical part of the scanning is minimized.

Then I scan from file to reduced JPEG for viewing and full size TIFFs 
for editing. That all takes a while, as the program does its thing with 
adjusting histogram, color, etc. and creating the output files, but can 
be done any time and runs in background without any involvement in film 
handling. I also like to have the RAW files, as any frames that need 
different processing can just be rescanned from the file without going 
back to the film.

Moose


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