Re: [APML]: Digitizing Slides. Help!

[aa6g@aa6g.org (Chuck Vaughn)]

Robin Casady wrote:

>In large even tone dark areas, such
>as a dark blue sky (read heavy use of polarizing filter), very subtle
>scan lines will sometimes appear. It varies from image to image. Just
>certain colors and tones show the streaks.

I don't believe I've seen this with the SprintScan. I'll have to look
carefully. Was the Coolscan not the first of it's kind? Perhaps the
scanners have improved.

>I have not done much B&W with the Coolscan, but net gossip indicates
>that some B&W films do not work well. T-Max films are reputably
>unusable. On the other hand Ilford XP2 is supposed to work quite well.
>This may be true for other slide scanners.

What was supposed to be the problem with T-Max? Too dense? Except for that
I can't imagine why it wouldn't scan properly.

Chuck Vaughn  <aa6g@aa6g.org>