Sentosa Skyline, Minox GTE with Fuji Neopan 400.
Hi,
the above is a scan of a neopan 400 35mm film from my epson v700.
here are the stuff i gleaned and implemented from a RFF thread:
a. changed the height adjustment from 3mm to 3.5mm,
i did this after detecting a ever-so-slight increase in shadow
details between 3mm and 3.5mm (both with sharpening turned off).
b. scan as 16-bit grey
c. scan at 3200 dpi
d. turned off auto-exposure but left sharpening to default medium.
e. adjusted the histogram to make sure both black and white
pointers covered the entire histogram; as for the middle grey pointer,
i moved it as left-most as possible while keeping the "tone curve" as
concave as possible, too much left would make it an "S" curve.
This produced a very flat low contrast file, which I Post-processing in PS.
I would appreciate you comments on improving the scanning settings.
raytoei