Scanning guide?

[feppe]

I was having big problems with curved film as well. Try mounting the negative emulsion side down (the opposite of Epson's recommendation) and flipping the image at scan time (easy in Vuescan) or in PP. That pretty much cured the problem for me.

Thanks for the tip, Steve, I'll try it out!

[Robert Budding]

Use a sheet of glass, wet mount to bottom side. Use spacers to get a good focus (cut up bits of business card for rough spacers). 4x Multipass scan using 48 bit scan at 6400dpi. Take this scan and apply Imagenomic noise reduction (or some other if you wish) and then downsize to 2400 dpi . use Photokit Sharpener capture sharpening (4x5 superfine).

Try to get a profile built using the best target you can afford or rent (or download my scratch one from http://www.timparkin.co.uk/blog/more_profiles). Apply no colour conversion when scanning and assign this profile when you are in photoshop.

I have a target made using a Hutch target and it has made a great difference in the shadows.. (I'll blog about it sometime soon and put it up for download)

Tim

I'm looking forward to seeing your results using an HCT profile.