RE: Sprintscan 120 issues/findings (comments welcomed)

[Jack Phipps <JPhipps@xxxxxxx>]

Have you tried it Dickbo? You probably should before you make assumptions,
especially since the trial version is free.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: dickbo [mailto:dickbo@btopenworld.com]


If you expand the tonal contrast in one area of an image you are bound to
compress it in another.

All things being equal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Phipps" <JPhipps@asf.com>


> Simon--
> Down load a free trial version of Digital SHO from www.asf.com and use it
to
> bring out the detail in the shadows. You should be able to bring out
detail
> with out "blowing" the highlights.
>
> Jack Phipps
> Applied Science Fiction
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Lamb [mailto:simon@sclamb.com]
>
>
> I have scanned a Delta 100 image this evening using a Flextight Photo at a
> dealer.  After the prescan the histogram showed the white point at about
50
> (which was fine as there was not any really white component to the image)
> and the range of other tones went all the way to 255 with a fairly even
> distribution.
>
> When I scanned the image I found that all pixels from about 210 to 255
were
> showing as black and I could not get any detail to show, even though I
know
> it is there from a scan done on a Sprintscan 120.  The histogram shows
that
> the detail should have been there.
>
> Can someone explain what has happened as all the level and curve
> manipulation that I have tried does not seem to get the detail to show.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Simon
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