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>Photoshop CS2 and Elements 3.0 (both using Camera Raw 3.1 plug-in
>released May 2005) and IrfanView 3-97 can open the VueScan raw files,
>but the images from color negative film exhibit the brownish-orange
>mask and inverted colors, and the images from transparency film are
low
>contrast and very dark. Yup, lots and lots of work is necessary to
>massage those raw images into something usable.
>
>This is in marked contrast to how easily DNG Converter 3.1 and Camera
>Raw 3.1 process my Fuji (.raf) and Olympus (.orf) raw files into
>something easily usable.
>
>Does this mean that I'm locked into using VueScan to convert its .tif
>raw files before I can use them easily in other painting programs?
I believe you are confusing digital camera images and scanned film
images. They are NOT the same thing.
Digital cameras dont produce inverted (negative) images, nor do they
have any orange backgound color, and Adobe DNG has no need to deal with
that. Adobe does call their proprietary universal format a digital
negative, but not with any inverted or orange meaning like an actual
negative. It's just a cute name.
A raw file from a scanned negative will be inverted and orange (because
the film negative is inverted and orange). Raw film scans are just 16
bit TIF files, however RAW means the film image has no processing at
all, no inversion, no removal of the orange mask, no gamma, no nothing.
Scanning software knows how to deal with that, and there is excellent
reason to use it instead of RAW.
You probably dont really want RAW files from film. There is no white
balance advantage like from digital cameras. You paid for the scanning
software's ability to process your film, and you may want to use it
for that purpose. Adobe isnt going to do it for you.
If you only had the "need to get all you can possibly get" from the
film negative, then probably what you wanted instead of Raw was a
regularly processed 16 bit image from Vuescan (with 0 for both Black
and White Points for the widest image). If 16 bits, you can still do
anything to that you could do to a RAW image, but inversion, orange
mask, and gamma will already be done properly for you. That is what
scanning software does. But then, other than already having gamma done,
it would then compare to digital camera images.
--
Wayne
http://www.scantips.com "A few scanning tips"
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