Vuescan Settings for Nikon 8000ED and XP2

[SiriusLux]

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Hello,

 

I am using Vuescan for some time now with my Nikon 8000ED.

I get very good results using Color slide film and got quite decent results scanning 45 years old Adox film.

Now I did a roll of XP2 and can't figure out how to get a decent result.

Could someone help me and give me the settings you use in the Input, Color and Output tabs.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Joerg

[philipus]

Hi Joerg

 

It would help to know what you mean by the non-decent results, even with an image or two posted.

 

Hamrick has a few suggestions which you may have seen already.

 

I should admit that I have not shot C41 black and white films but I believe you may, simply, need to try different film settings on the Color tab. It has taken me a while to settle on a few of the presets that I like for my b&w (mainly Tri-X) so trial and error is the key. I should say it also depends on the colours in the photograph so no preset is a magic bullet.

 

Hope this helps some (and kick starts the thread so other members who are more experienced in scanning C41 b&w chime in).

 

Good luck

Philip

[plasticman]

As Philip says, there are so many variables in the process that it probably would help to break it down to specifics.

For my workflow, I simply follow the guidelines pretty much as they're described on this site:

 

Perfect Slide & Negative Scans | VueScan Professional | Scanning | ColorPerfect

 

I know some people scan each frame individually as a positive, and laboriously tweak Vuescan to optimize for exposure and/or color. But I prefer to produce a linear scan that I hope gives me as much information as the original image contains, and then do the work on it afterwards in Photoshop or PhotoLine (with the help of ColorPerfect).

[tobey bilek]

Find an area with no exposure and make that RGB 000 . Use between frames or other empty area.