Re: Sprintscan 120 issues/findings (comments welcomed)

[Don Dement <don.dement@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've read that some printers use only black ink below about this value, and
color above. 

Could this be something that Nikon has set deliberately, anticipating printing
without black or is that stretching an observation too far?
-- 
Regards -- Don Dement
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rafe.bustin@verizon.net wrote:
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> On 14 Apr 2002 at 23:57, Simon Lamb wrote:
> > Is it just that the SS 120 is not finding any pixels below that level, i.e.
> > the belt does not have a real true black as far as it is concerned?  If so,
> > how come the Flextight and my LS30 think there are, and the SS 120 thinks so
> > when scanning the same neg using Vuescan?  Has anyone else seen this
> > histogram behaviour with the SS 120?
> >     
>
> I don't own an SS 120, but read this post with interest.
>
> This specific behavior has also been noted and griped 
> about on the LS-8000 -- ie., histograms that fall off 
> abruptly, on the low end, at a value well above zero.  
>
> On my Nikon, using NikonScan, this cutoff appears 
> at a count of around 20-30 (out of 255.)  The "fix" 
> for this problem (in NikonScan) is screwy, and probably 
> not applicable or transferable to the SS 120, is my guess.
>
> Frankly, this (mis)behavior doesn't concern me nearly as 
> much as the opposite problem (clipping.)
>
>
> rafe b.
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