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More learning curve stuff for me here folks. I got a roll of slide back from Peak Imaging yesterday which I was quite excited about. I know you have to be cock on with slide exposure and I think I might have been a bit under but here's what I don't understand about scannners.
If I hold the slide upto the light it looks pretty good. When I do a preview scan (Epson 4490 using Epsonscan) they're really dark, probably about 2 stops under and I didn't think I was that far out. If I use the professional mode then I can adjust the levels before the final scan and the ouput file is pretty good. If I scan in home mode (so no levels) and do the levels in photoshop or LR then the noise is aweful.
The last bit about increasing the exposure in post I understand but is the preview scan the true exposure or is it normal for the preview to be a rough guess and what I see when holding upto the room light or window is a more accurate representation?
One other thing, the Epson 4490 only scans two 6x6 frames at a time. Usin pro mode it usually picks up the two frames and treats them seperately. Sometimes amd there appears to be no rhyme or reason it splits two 6x6 images into three that look like 6x4.5 even though I have 6x6 selected in the preferences. Is this just a bug with the software. When it does this I have to resort to Home mode which thens cans the whole strip and I have to marquee the frames to seperate them before scanning. The problem with this is that there little to nothing that I can do to sort the image (levels etc) before doing the final scan.
something tells me the answer is to get one of them slide holders from betterscanning.com but they're gonna be expensive with the exchange rate being so crap.
TIA
Kev
If I hold the slide upto the light it looks pretty good. When I do a preview scan (Epson 4490 using Epsonscan) they're really dark, probably about 2 stops under and I didn't think I was that far out. If I use the professional mode then I can adjust the levels before the final scan and the ouput file is pretty good. If I scan in home mode (so no levels) and do the levels in photoshop or LR then the noise is aweful.
The last bit about increasing the exposure in post I understand but is the preview scan the true exposure or is it normal for the preview to be a rough guess and what I see when holding upto the room light or window is a more accurate representation?
One other thing, the Epson 4490 only scans two 6x6 frames at a time. Usin pro mode it usually picks up the two frames and treats them seperately. Sometimes amd there appears to be no rhyme or reason it splits two 6x6 images into three that look like 6x4.5 even though I have 6x6 selected in the preferences. Is this just a bug with the software. When it does this I have to resort to Home mode which thens cans the whole strip and I have to marquee the frames to seperate them before scanning. The problem with this is that there little to nothing that I can do to sort the image (levels etc) before doing the final scan.
something tells me the answer is to get one of them slide holders from betterscanning.com but they're gonna be expensive with the exchange rate being so crap.
TIA
Kev