khk@khk.net said:
> Take a look at vuescan. This application is used a lot among serious
> "film scanners" (aka professional photographers). IMHO the only thing
> missing in vuescan is the curve tool.
I second this, a Sane frontend for film scanners that emulated the features
of VueScan would be very close to ideal. Lots of people use VueScan in
preference to the software provided by the manufacture of the scanner.
> If you want to scan negatives, you need a library of rules to remove
> the orange mask for all sorts of films. In vuescan you select the
> brand (e.g. Kodak) and then the type of film (e.g. Gold) and then the
> emulsion revision (e.g. 6), so it's a rather sophisticated algorithm
> to remove the mask.
The other things I can think of are multi-pass scanning, i.e. scanning the
same negative several times and taking average values. This reduces the noise
in the scanned image and improves shadow detail etc. Batch scanning of strips
of negatives, handling APS loaders etc. All this things make scanning
negatives/slides a much more pleasant task.
Take a look a VueScan it more or less does it all.
JAB.
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