Nikon 8000 settings

  • Thread starter Thread starter William
  • Start date Start date
W

William

I am scanning mostly color negs with a Nikon 8000/NikonScan 3.1. I am
trying to determine the best settings to achieve an optimum tone
response curve.

With all of the adjustment settings off, the scanner seems to give
overexposed results, nearly clipping the highlights. I've played a bit
with the LCH editor and Analog Gain. So far the best results are with
a Lightness curve that is S-shaped, opening up the shadows while
pulling back the highlights.

Any of you with more experience in this?

Thanks for any help you might offer,

William
 
I am scanning mostly color negs with a Nikon 8000/NikonScan 3.1. I am
trying to determine the best settings to achieve an optimum tone
response curve.

With all of the adjustment settings off, the scanner seems to give
overexposed results, nearly clipping the highlights. I've played a bit
with the LCH editor and Analog Gain. So far the best results are with
a Lightness curve that is S-shaped, opening up the shadows while
pulling back the highlights.

Any of you with more experience in this?

Thanks for any help you might offer,

William
Click to expand...


The best method I've found for scanning color negs
on the LS-800 is described in detail by Dane Kosaka
(East57th) at

http://www.marginalsoftware.com/index.html

Several variations are described. The one
I use is to scan as positive, press "auto-expose",
then invert each of the three color curves within
the histogram tool. (This is all being done in
NikonScan.)

Occasionally I'll do a simple gamma tweak
on one or more channels.

I typically use the following analog gains
with this procedure:

Master +.3
R -.4
G +.7
B +1.6


rafe b.
http://www.terrapinphoto.com
 
Back
Top