epson 1670

[john white]

I have an epson 1670 scanner. I am trying to scan some old negatives.
They were taken with a fotron camera in the 60's. I can't seem to get a
decent scan. I have read everything that I can find there is simply
little detail. I have the software that came with the scanner and also
vuescan. The software that came with the scanner seems to do the better
job although I suspect that its in the vuescan settings.

My system is an athlon 2.??ghz w/1gb of memory and I have lots of disk
space. I am running w/w2000

I also have corel 12 and photoshop.

I also suspect that I am missing something. Can anybody point me in the
right direction?

 

[CSM1]

I have an epson 1670 scanner. I am trying to scan some old negatives. They
were taken with a fotron camera in the 60's. I can't seem to get a decent
scan. I have read everything that I can find there is simply little
detail. I have the software that came with the scanner and also vuescan.
The software that came with the scanner seems to do the better job although
I suspect that its in the vuescan settings.

My system is an athlon 2.??ghz w/1gb of memory and I have lots of disk
space. I am running w/w2000

I also have corel 12 and photoshop.

I also suspect that I am missing something. Can anybody point me in the
right direction?

http://www.scantips.com/
Read, Read, read some more. Or buy his book.

Good place to start on scanners.
http://www.scantips.com/simple.html

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

I have an epson 1670 scanner. I am trying to scan some old
negatives. They were taken with a fotron camera in the 60's. I can't
seem to get a decent scan.

What seems to be the problem, color or B/W negatives, can you post an
example/crop?

Bart

 

[greg white]

What seems to be the problem, color or B/W negatives, can you post an
example/crop?

Bart

Its VERY strange. I was saving a tiff file and decided to try a jpeg
file instead. The tiff was 7 million+ and the jpeg was 800,000 the
strange thing is that the jpeg was a BETTER picture than the tiff! this
makes absolutely no sense at all but I can live with the jpg file.

thanks for the response - it is appreciated....