how to use epson3200/viewscan/B&W?

[menashe_soffer]

<p>hello</p>

<p>I have read very good reviews on viewscan so I wanted to give it a try;<br />naturaly wanted to test the demo first.<br />I my test the results were unacceptable; they were so bad that I am convinced that I used wrong settings.<br />Attached is the example comparing an old scan I did with the Epson scanning software (smartPanel) and the same scanned with viewscan. in both i didnt tweeked with scanning parameters and did very little PS (sharpening). the viewscan is unacceptionaly soft.</p>

<p>I did not changed the default viewscan settings other than setting "B&W negative", "16-bit gray" and "3200DPI" in the input tab. anyone can think about something?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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[menashe_soffer]

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[menashe_soffer]

<p>another attemp to upload the epson scan</p>

[menashe_soffer]

<p>last one</p><div></div>

[StuartMoxham]

<p>To you vue scan and sharpened it looks like the epson software does some sharpeing.</p><div></div>

[menashe_soffer]

<p>stuart</p>

<p>your result is surprising; I did not get anything near by just "unsharp mask"<br>

can you describe the sequence?</p>

[StuartMoxham]

<p>Well for some reason that text came out real wrong. It looks like the epson software does some sharpening. by itself for some reason.</p>

[StuartMoxham]

<p>Unsharpmask nothing else</p>

[StuartMoxham]

<p>I found epson scan to do a good enough job with my V500.</p>

[r_johnston]

<p>TO me, the epson sample looks oversharpened, with lots of noise.<br>

When using my Viewscan, it would scan default at 300 Pixels per inch. <br>

When set to 600 or 1200 results was much better.<br>

Was scanning a lot of small, old, color images for BW, but scanned in color for it seemed to improve the colors also. By converting to BW in Photoshop the end results were better than scanning color as BW.</p>