Re: Grain aliasing: do some neg films suffer less than others?

[Bill Agee <billagee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Go to http://www.hamrick.com and get yourself a copy of "Vuescan", Ed
>Hamrick's well known scanning interface for different types of film
>scanners (one software fits all scanners :-)). As to your problem, two
>settings (apart from that negative has to be chosen as film type) are
>essential: "Infrared clean" -> "medium", "grain reduction" -> "light".
>Scan one of your negatives and look if the overall appearance of that
>scan is closer to what you have in mind, at least as to the grain issue.
>If yes, you'll have to acquaint with the numerous controls of Vuescan to
>get the colors about right (the main goal of Vuescan is to produce "raw"
>scans with a maximum of image information in them; those usually need a
>bit more of post-scan color correction). If you're through this - allow
>one or two days of scanning frustration and lots of beer and coffee for
>it - you most likely won't touch Nikon's crappy user interface ever
>again.


Great advice.  I went to Vuescan out of frustration with the nikon 
software and won't go back.  Much smoother and more useful scans.

Bill
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