VueScan and different film types

[Erik van der Meulen]

Hi - I am relatively new to the world of film scanning. I have a Nikon
Coolscan III and purchased VueScan (Intel) because of favourable
comments found on the web. I have found it a little tough to master in
the beginning because of all the options, but seem to find my way
around quite well now.

One of the things I am still struggling with, is what film type to
select in the Color tab for a given film. Clearly not all films are
present and it seems to be a little trial-and-error to see which works
well. I find this difficult and time consuming because of the options
that are available.

Would it be possible to advice from experience what works best for
(some of my current favourites):

- FUJI Neopan 1600
- FUJI Neopan 400
- FUJI Acros 100

Does it seem to make sense to collect these 'best practices' and make
them available to other users of VueScan?

Thanks a lot for all thoughts!

Erik

 

[Robert Feinman]

Hi - I am relatively new to the world of film scanning. I have a Nikon
Coolscan III and purchased VueScan (Intel) because of favourable
comments found on the web. I have found it a little tough to master in
the beginning because of all the options, but seem to find my way
around quite well now.

One of the things I am still struggling with, is what film type to
select in the Color tab for a given film. Clearly not all films are
present and it seems to be a little trial-and-error to see which works
well. I find this difficult and time consuming because of the options
that are available.

Would it be possible to advice from experience what works best for
(some of my current favourites):

- FUJI Neopan 1600
- FUJI Neopan 400
- FUJI Acros 100

Does it seem to make sense to collect these 'best practices' and make
them available to other users of VueScan?

Thanks a lot for all thoughts!

Erik

I find the best results from leaving everything at generic and making
adjustments with image editor. The important thing is to capture the
full range of densities in the image.

 

[Erik Krause]

Hello, Erik van der Meulen
you wrote...

Would it be possible to advice from experience what works best for
(some of my current favourites):

- FUJI Neopan 1600
- FUJI Neopan 400
- FUJI Acros 100

These are B/W films, aren't they? Unfortunately Vuescan has no generic
B/W mode as for color negatives, but this does not seem to matter. I
would do the following:

Scan with Media Type B/W negative. For better control you might want to
read the advanced workflow suggestions in the manual, but this is of
less relevance here. In the color tab set for B/W vendor 'Generic'.

The only options for B/W brand is 'color' but this does not matter
since input type is B/W. With generic negative type vuescan only
inverts the image and does not try to correct anything.

Choose color balance neutral and set white and black point to 0%. This
avoids clipping of highlights or shadows. Increase values only, if you
want to enhance contrast and you don't care much about shadow detail. A
better way is to use a s-shaped curve in your image editor.