On May 1, 2005, at 10:18 AM, mike wilson wrote:
what Scan software do you use with multipass capability? Vuescan or does
that work with the supplied Nikon Software?
Did you do some testing on the number of passes and did you get the best
results with 4 times multipass or do you make some compromises because of
the scan times?
Vuescan allows me to scan mutliple passes on my Canoscan 2700F. The Canon software does not. Whether it makes any difference, I have not been able to say.
I've done a number of experiments with Vuescan multipass scanning using the Minolta Scan Dual II. The improvements are often pretty subtle and I haven't seen that it is really warranted for most images, compared to simply setting the scan curve properly and taking the output as [EMAIL PROTECTED] RGB: probably only for fairly contrasty exposures at best. It can't retrieve detail from thin portions of a film original, but it can pull some additional data from overly dense sections.
Usually, 4-8 passes nets as much improvement with my negatives as I'm going to see.
Godfrey
