Re: [APML] rescanned and processed IC1396

["John Boudreau" <jeboud@attbi.com>]

Very nice shot Jeff! I'm impressed with the smoothness and resolution of the
image. Kinda makes it look CCD... especially with the spikes <g>.

Can you scan the slide at 90 degrees from this one to see if it's the
scanner?

John Boudreau
jeboud@attbi.com
http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/astro.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@zoominternet.net>
To: "Astro-Photo" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:45 AM
Subject: [APML] rescanned and processed IC1396


> Hello all,
> I am giving the old Nikon 8000 a workout.  I rescanned at 14bit and
utilized
> the GEM software.  I am very impressed with the GEM software.  At least on
> these E200 push processed slides that were very thin, the GEM did a great
> job of reducing the grain and preserving resolution.  I used a setting of
1
> out of 4.  The GEM is part of the Nikon software package and is packaged
> with other scanning software.  After much experience with SGBNR, BGSmooth,
> and selective gaussian blurring on my own, I am pretty confident that the
> GEM worked much better than any of these others would have.  I am thinking
> of rescanning some old PPF stuff to see what GEM can do with it.  I also
> went with a natural look and worked with what I had and did not force the
> processing.  I still have a lot to learn with the software.  I am trying
to
> find the right balance between utilizing the Nikon software and relying on
> Photoshop.  Oh yeh, I used Photoshop with 16 bit(?) mode<g> for curves.  I
> think it does make a difference<g>
>
> http://www.astro-photography.com/ic1396.htm
>
> Jeff Ball
>
>
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