Dry Darkroom Equipment Recommendations

[mark_sand]

PW Pro question. I downloaded it and tried it out but could not figure out how to use adjustment layers, or if it even had them. So, does PW pro have layers and if so, were do you acess them?

[charles_miller]

My following comment comes after several months of experience with a Nikon 4000 ED scanning mainly E100S slides.

 

Nikon scanner optics have a very shallow depth of field, so autofocus accuracy is very critical for them. Since some slides and negatives have large areas with no image details, Nikon scanners have to use the emulsion grain to focus on! So Nikon scanners use collimated light to make the grain pop! Then they include GEM software to make you feel like you are really sophisticated and really got your money's worth. But if you are using an emulsion which doesn't work well with GEM, then you are just simply stuck. Also, the CCD sensor in this scanner has signal bleed and many high contast slides are not worth scanning with it, IMHO.