Nikon CoolScan

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Thanks, so do I with my Epson V700. This is for B&W work. Is it easy to make profiles with the Nikon 4000 or 8000 ? It would be nice to make a profile for a roll of film & scan most of the negs & then return to tune up the strays.

 

What do you mean by profiles? I'm not sure if Vuescan operates the roll feeder correctly. Regardless, for color, Nikonscan gets it close enough for me. I'm bound to work on it some in Photoshop, do I don't sweat the lack of absolute color accuracy - it's not the end of the world, and is often a bit boring. Not that I like my people looking magenta or anything.

 

For B&W, I have a process that lets me move through frame by frame pretty quickly and gives me relatively flat and consistent scans. This lets me bring them into photoshop and apply a preset set of curves that get me in pretty close to what I want. I have the action set to leave the curves dialog open so I can tweak them for the specific shot.

 

My process in Vuescan is not based on locking exposures and things like that. You can do it, some people really like it, but I find if you turn off most of the adjustments and set Vuescan to set exposure by itself, it gets me where I want. I do have it set to ignore the outer 5% of the image so it doesn't take clear negative and the like into account.

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Not posted for a long time but that is a serious amount of scanning I normally take an evening to scan a roll of 35mm and thats just to scan doing nothing to the files, I know this is the film forum but I would think it would be easier to shoot on digital:)