Because of a history I'm putting together for a local college plus my own personally taken
4 x 5" B & W negatives, I had to purchase an expensive Epson V800 scanner.
I tried the scanner out with some old World War II Era 4 x 5" B & W negatives using most
of the "Epson Scan" default settings. The scans came out acceptable.
However one negative taken with a flash in a World War II servicemen's club came out
with a little too much contrast.
So I wanted to try to improve it by adding more mid-tones. However I could not locate any
specific information on how and why to do the following:
1. In which direction, why and which histogram sliders should I move in order to add more
mid-tones?
2. Also at the same time do I have to change the default "brightness," "contrast," and
"tone correction curve" settings? If so, how much and why?
I wrote to Epson asking for some basic help with this. I even enclosed screen shots
of most of the scan setting pages including the histogram page. But after spending
all that money on one of their products, this company couldn't care less because
I never received a reply to my July 17th letter. What a nice company Epson is!
Any help or suggestions with this scanning problem will be greatly appreciated.
Please note that none of my computers is hooked up to the Internet. So if a reply is
required, if may be delayed.
Thank you for any and all help or suggestions.
Ron
