Vuescan Pro v9

Scanning - is PROCESS . Post processing is - when File Transfered to PShop. Are we clear? Sharpening while scanning is very important to get as much as possible fine details from film . This fuction works like Lens aperture - wide open or closed at f= 16.0. If missed - USM won't help . You can not sharp - if you don't have nothing to sharp . Like soft filter . Vuescan has embedded (!!!) Luminosity Noise reduction. This is one is a big pixel killer . You can see how it works in LR 3.3 . Vuescan is unexpensive program for fast no-worries scanning . If we are talking about third party scanner software - we shoud talk about Silverfast . With all set of settings , - USM also included ..........

JS,
I personally am not a fan of USM or doing image correction when scanning, not when it can be done far better in other programs. I am more interested in getting the most raw data out of the film being scanned and doing it efficiently. I'm not sure at this point whether or not Vuescan is more efficient than silverfast, but it seems to do a better job of capturing a raw scan. Silverfast does have more controls, and the ui is better. Additionally the silverfast folks have tried to create an ecosystem of sorts built around the scanned image. These extra bits, HDR, camera. archiving and printing may be great and give greater value to the software, but I've not tried them. I have used silverfast on a number of scanners and it is good, but not as good as what comes with the creo eversmart or imacon and as I said, not as good for my purposes for the Nikon -- at least not so far.

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Sorry, I think you are conflating sharpening and resolution ("fine detail") and this fails to make the case for sharpening during scanning. If you want to maximize detail and minimize noise, try multipass scanning.
Sharpening is essentially a destructive process, especially when it's done globally on an image without regard to content as during scanning, so better to handle this with a full array of masking and other tools on Photoshop layers.
This is probably an endless debate; stick with whatever works for you.

JS 2011 said:

Scanning - is PROCESS . Post processing is - when File Transfered to PShop. Are we clear? Sharpening while scanning is very important to get as much as possible fine details from film . This fuction works like Lens aperture - wide open or closed at f= 16.0. If missed - USM won't help . You can not sharp - if you don't have nothing to sharp . Like soft filter . Vuescan has embedded (!!!) Luminosity Noise reduction. This is one is a big pixel killer . You can see how it works in LR 3.3 . Vuescan is unexpensive program for fast no-worries scanning . If we are talking about third party scanner software - we shoud talk about Silverfast . With all set of settings , - USM also included ..........

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JS 2011 said:

Vuescan has embedded (!!!) Luminosity Noise reduction. This is one is a big pixel killer.

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Actually, I think Vuescan calls this "Grain Reduction" in the filter tab, and it can be disabled. Unless, of course, you have some documentable evidence to the contrary.

--Greg

scanner USM settings works for resolution ,-especially Light and Dark Pixels balance & level . Regarding Sharpening in Photoshop with layers and HPass , masking e.t.c. - I quit that long time ago . There is different technique . Regards

JS 2011 said:

scanner USM settings works for resolution ,-especially Light and Dark Pixels balance & level.

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Dear JS 2011,

any software operation applied to the pixels after scanning can be made at any stage in the post processing stage, I really can't see how there can be computational steps which absolutely have to happen within the scanner software. This doesn't mean you can change the order of a post processing sequence, but you can interrupt the sequence at any point and continue it with another software tool.

Since many post processing steps (foremost scaling, denoising and sharpening) are also needed by purely digital folks, there is a lot of synergy (which means for us: much better tools available, since the research/development costs/efforts are shared by vastly more users) in using these tools instead of reinventing the wheel in the scanning software that only we film, shooters use. If you don't care to pay for photoshop, you know, there are quite capable post processing tools out there for free.

JD, I think I'm a bit late, but your approach won't work. I'm running both Nikon scanners with absolutely perfect results. However, if you want to 'batch' a strip with 3 6x6 images and need to crop, you'll be in trouble: VS applies the crop to the batch, not just to a single image.

But here is the trick: Batch preview your images. Go to the first image, apply your crop (color tab should/could be unchanged), change the batch to i.e. frame 1, proceed with image 2, apply your crop, change the batch to frame 2, and so on.

Ultimate solution: Batch preview all images, select a crop that fits them all, batch scan them, crop them in any application. Make sure you configure your settings to 48bit @ highest resolution, filter -> infrared clean to LIGHT and hit go.

You can set a frame/crop that matches all images and then save this as a template. The frame/crop can be moved left/right top/bottom for each single image - this is a per image option. You can even rotate the crop for one frame without influencing the others as long as you don't modify the aspect ratio of your frame/crop (I mean the marquee or rubber band).

You can use different 'images' for the display of your histogram: check this link (I'll add more information over the next months here).

Right on top of the article I've posted a scanned slide which shows the power of VueScan.

Never too late. thanks Jens.

Thanks for the post and link, Jens! Looking forward to your updates.