vikramdmello Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 is it a good idea to use auto-exposure when scanning film? i have just begun using a nikon coolscan V, for mostly slide film. are there pros or cons keep the auto-exposure setting on in the nikonscan software? thank you - vd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 If it works, use it. If you have to fix too many, you are better off making density & rgb settings and saving them for each film type. The scans will be flat but on color. Import to Photoshop and do auto levels and you will be 99% there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikramdmello Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 thank you, ronald. my situation thus far is, most of the slides seem properly exposed, at least on visual inspection. for these well-exposed images then, i wonder if allowing auto-exposure to tinker with them might actually be detrimental? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendel_leisk Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Minolta's (defunct) scanner division recommended disabling auto-exposure with their scanners, at least for slides. I've gone with that, on all but my moderately to grossly underexposed slides, where I'll manually raise the exposure level. I found auto-exposure was consistantly blowing out highlights, not a lot, but too much. You could opt to use auto-exposure with an override, reducing it's "judgement" by some factor, but I found that still too unpredictable. I just went for their recomendation: manual exposure, everything zero'd. Keeps your scan times constant, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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