A lower resolution scan upsized will not be as good as the optical limit scan.ĭigital Ice/Dust and Scratch removal only works with color materials. The optical limit of the scanner gives you the most to work with and can be downsized in post. Setting the Black and White points for each negative/chrome will give you the most detail from the image, adjust for best image in post. The left edge of the histogram is 0 for black with no detail, the right edge is 255 for white with no detail. Once I had worked through all controls singularly I started adjusting them in pairs then in 3's.Ī preview may show a good image but the actual scan may be bad. I reset that control to neutral starting point then repeated the process with the next control. Next I adjusted one control by 10%, made a scan, compared to the base scan then repeated until noticeable deterioration was seen then backed off in small increments until the deterioration was gone and noted the amount of the adjustment. I learned by choosing a know good negative that was correctly exposed and developed, made a default scan at software settings at 600dpi which was good enough for comparison. 48 bit RGB is 16 bits per color, Red, Green,Blue, the current limit. Scanning above that limit is software interpolation which is better done in post processing. The optical limit of the 8200 is 7200 dpi. Software has image editing built into it for faster desktop through put. The scanner has little to do with it, the software on the other hand manipulates the scanner's abilities and sometimes exceeds the scanners limits. I learned to scan on Silverfast Ai 6 on Win XP with a Microtek 8700 Pro scanner. I'm a Windows user and currently have Win 10 Pro. Scanning is like photography, it has a learning curve.

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