![]() ![]() I think what is happening is that the uncropped image is also scanning the film base which of course will render a brilliant white, hence the spike in the histogram, and which will be compensated for in the image area by bringing all the other tones down. I realise what is happening now, appreciate the helpįrom the histograms the right image looks best, and visually it looks best. In this case I think I'll perhaps run with the left option for proofs and then run a crop for anything that I want to spend more time on. If I want to make the best I can of an image, then I would treat it as a one-off: crop it and and set the exposure manually. Cropping every negative in a roll to the exact scene would be tedious, so I accept the limitations of autoexposure at speed. I don't crop my images, so my files are always flatter than I want I adjust this in post. I use an Essential Film Holder through which I run my film strip there is always a small clear film base border and an black film holder border. In your shoes, and with lots of time on my hands, I would use the cropped image. For the cropped image, Vuescan is using only the scene to set whites and blacks, giving a wider tonal range within the scene. If your film base is very clear, and your scene highlights are not blown, then you are compressing the scene tones, giving you a flat image. I'm not familiar with either scanner or software, but it's the same issue when scanning with a digital camera: how do you set exposure?įor the uncropped negative, Vuescan is taking the border as white, and the darkest part of the scene as black. ' data-webShareUrl=''>More sharing options. This has crossed my mind during this process. Lastly - if the cropped image workflow is the more accurate way of doing things then perhaps these results indicate my camera is over-exposing. I'd be grateful of any tips here please as I don't fully understand why these are giving such different results or which one is the 'better' starting point. Thanks in advance for the help, and any related any pointers. Lastly - i f th e cropped image workflow is the more accurate way of doing things then perhaps these results indicate my camera is over-exposing. ![]() On the flip side, I thought that cropping the border out would give the scanner a more 'true' representation of the image in question. In practice, scanning images without the border has given me some problems, for example portraits where the histogram is pushed all the way to the right and I've had to knock the exposure down by a stop before doing anything in Lightroom - which this seems kind of pointless after 'correctly' exposing an image in camera. Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!Ĭan someone please give me some guidance on which of these is 'better' as a starting point for more editing ? I would have thought that the left hand side image is a more accurate representation of the exposure of the in-camera image, since the histogram is in the middle, aswell as having more differentiation of tones rather than everything clumped together in the whites. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… This image was quite well exposed in-camera I believe. The right hand scan being much brighter of course and the corresponding histograms from Lightroom are included below also to illustrate how much more white is in the scan that was cropped prior. This can be seen here - These are the scan output results I get if I don't crop the border before hitting 'scan' (left image) or if I crop the border before hitting ‘scan’ (right image). crop out the white border) before scanning I get a much greyer output scan than if I crop the border off prior to selecting 'scan'. Using the attached image as an example, if I don't crop into the image (i.e. I have been using the crop setting '35mm negative', which leaves a white border around the preview image. As such I am keeping my Black and white points set at '0' and both curve low and curve high set to 0.001 I've been following the advice of posts on the forum regarding Vuescan settings and my workflow is such that I'd like a flat scan from Vuescan, giving me as much image info as possible which I can then carry to Lightroom / Photoshop for editing. I'm new to scanning and hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction here. ![]()
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