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Q. Scanning Astia Slide Film

Asked by Donald Holman (K=884) on 3/12/2003

Was wondering if anyone had any tips for scanning Fuji Astia 100 slide film? I have a Minolta Dimage Scan Speed and I use Vuescan to scan the negs/slides. Right now, I have it set for 35mm slide film with generic slide setting and neutral or white color balance. Biggest thing I notice is "grain" in some of the scans that I don't see through my loupe with the slide on a light table. Any info or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

-=>Donald

Jeroen Wenting

(K=25317) - Comment Date 3/13/2003

I have noticed that the Scan Dual II has a tendency to generate quite a bit of noise in skytones (especially grey and pale blue) using Sensia and Provia (Sensia is effectively Astia).

Don't use in-device sharpening, set grain reduction to medium.
Doesn't always work, but you can easily use things like despeckle and Gaussian blur to remove the leftover noise from the sky (which is the only place I encounter it).

Donald Holman (K=884) - Comment Date 3/15/2003

Jereon: Thank you. The Scan Speed F8000 is really good in most situations. The problem was that some of my slides were slightly underexposed. To pull the detail out, I set up for long exposure (which takes 1 scan and then does a second scan at a higher intesity and then places them together). Got some good scans that way while also setting up for no sharpening, degraining, etc. in software, neutral or white-balanced color balancing. and doing all the post processing completely in PS.

-=>Donald

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