Nikon Scan Problems

[Norbert Preining]

Hi!

Image seems to be working perfect with the scanner profile, but
"Media type=Slide" allows to setup the film base color.... In some
situations however (low contrast images or low temperature such as
late evening) "Media type=Slide" does not provide satisfactory
results or even fails completely, whereas type=Image seems to
be very linear in the processing of the raw data.

Yes, I experienced this problem again and again. I am scanning several
hundred (some thousands) of slides (most of them Provia, some Sensia)
first to raw files, then to jpg/png/whatever and there are always these
problematics cases.

It is strange because you hear again and again "Use Image" but I have
made the experience that the Slide also works quite often very good.

Now its the time for Christmas... We have to hit the road to
be ahead of the traffic!

And I off to bed ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

 

[Chris Birkett]

Hi!


Yes, I experienced this problem again and again. I am scanning several
hundred (some thousands) of slides (most of them Provia, some Sensia)
first to raw files, then to jpg/png/whatever and there are always these
problematics cases.

It is strange because you hear again and again "Use Image" but I have
made the experience that the Slide also works quite often very good.


And I off to bed ;-)

I tried this workflow, and I find Vuescan just produces horrible
overexposed/flat scans from the 'raw' NikonScan files. I'm also unable to
select "slide" or "image" in the scan from file dialogue, it will only let
me select "colour photo" or something to that effect. The other choices are
"b/w photo," "newspaper," etc. Occasionally it shows the various film
choices when I fiddle with it, but this is obviously just a bug, because
selecting "slide film" produces a black and white scan (the selection is in
the same place as "b/w photo" on the list). I would love to be able to just
do 'raw' scans in NikonScan and clean them up later, but so far the results
have been dreadful.

As far as the original example on my pbase account (the first one),
NikonScan's colour is much closer to the original than either Vuescan or
Silverfast, the slide *does* have a very dramatic purple cast. The
NikonScan raw/Vuescan from file result looks quite nice after I clean it up
with curves, but it's nothing whatsoever like the original slide.

- Chris

 

[ThomasH]

I tried this workflow, and I find Vuescan just produces horrible
overexposed/flat scans from the 'raw' NikonScan files. I'm also unable to

I am afraid, you do something wrong and I can only repeat a suggestion
to post a raw file of a moderate size, 14bit 800x600 pix or similar
and lets give it a try.

Thomas