Originally Posted by
Ted Harris
I agree with Ken. I have been thinking and thinking about how I would write such and article and what I would include. Every time I give up. As a comparison to reinforce Ken's comments, our scanning workshops are two and a half intensive days of hands on "how to" scanning LF negatives, and we cover all the basics and a fw advanced techniques but it does take that long to go through the basics and do it well, no idea how I would get it all in an article that didn't run book length and then, it still wouldnot have the needed "hands on."
IMO, the absolute most important, most necessary, must do, etc. thing to remember when scanning is to properly set your white and black points. That is, set your withe point so that you gt all the detail you want and everything outside of it is specular white. Set your black point so that you capture all the shadow detial possible/all the shadow detail you are interesed in capturing and let everything beyod that point go to black. If you do that right you will capture ALL the information you want to use in further image processing and you will have won most of the battle.
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