Originally posted by Nuff OK, but looked at the above photo, especially left shoulder and hair over the shoulder and tell me that it's not underexposed? The noise shows it is. The way it's exposed the hair supposed to be totally black, since there's no detail there. I'm pretty sure the negative is very thin in that area. It's a 6x7 neg and there's noise everywhere. My 35mm scans have less noise on V700. Photo was shown above, I commented on what I see.
The film is correctly exposed, it's the scanner that is trying to make the neg averagely well exposed. The Canon Canoscann 9000F acts the same.
Lee, when i use ... (what software it is ? .... ah yes !) Silverfast, by default, when i do "preview" to select the area i want to scan in the film, the software always decide spontaneously to do some "adjustement" (curve, contrast, exposure).
What i found to be the best results is : choose the appropriate film selection, then cancel all those auto adjustement to set them to the scanning set-up to default. I mean, no changing or adjustement.
Eventually, if the scan software allows it : increase the exposure but not by the curve, but by a cursor, that is with the film selection section. It will increase the light the scanner emits to "see" the film.
If you disable all the auto adjustement, you will remove the color cast. The scanner will scann according to a routine pre-made by the manufacturer to render in the most real way possible the film.
Originally posted by Nuff Who cares what the print is like? They are manipulated by the person who seats in front of frontier and dialed the way he likes. He adjust the photos to HIS liking. Not yours. To what he believes it's right.
Why not do what you think is right?
You can ask the lab to not do any kind of change during the scanning, that's what i do, and hence what i have on my screen is exactly what is ging to be printed, whether it's a film source or digital file.
Nuff, seriously, why are you so bad-tempered ? If you are having a bad day, just don't throw all your wickedness on the people of this forum, would you.