What's gone on 'ere then?

[sirch]

The two photos below are frames 6 and 7 from a negative, scanned at the same time using the the same settings. As far as I can tell from squinting at the negative with a variety of magnifying devices in the first is OK on the film. The scanner is an Epson V550 and these are both straight out of the scanner, converted from TIFF to JPEG scanned at 6400 DPI

 

[kendo1]

Mr Blobby attacks.
I get that sometimes with my 550

 

[sirch]

Mr Blobby attacks.
I get that sometimes with my 550

OK at least it's not something I did. it's a wonder they don't advertise it as a fancy filter effect

 

[excalibur2]

Just an observation:- 6400dpi is too high unless you want a large print or cropping.....for the V550 after about 1,800 it's just packing more pixels\sq cm and not sqeezing more detail out of the neg. For 35mm 3,200dpi is a good all rounder, but some are happy with 2,400dpi.

 

[mickledore]

Is that Arnside?
If so how widespread is the snow up that way?

 

[sirch]

Is that Arnside?
If so how widespread is the snow up that way?

Yes, it's raining now so the snow is going but we had about 1 or two inches this morning

 

[mickledore]

Yes, it's raining now so the snow is going but we had about 1 or two inches this morning

Oh well, that's another plan gone. All we've had all day is rain and wind. It's not so much that the light is flat as that there is no light.
It's enough to drive a man to drink

 

[kendo1]

Oh well, that's another plan gone. All we've had all day is rain and wind. It's not so much that the light is flat as that there is no light.
It's enough to drive a man to drink

Good time of year for that

 

[Nod]

Is any sort of dust removal going on? IIRC, it can play hell with B&W scans. (Software removal rather than blower brush!)

 

[joxby]

Know what that reminds me of....

...insufficient fix

why frames next to each other would suffer so differently, is hard to say.
s'pose you could re-scan 6..

 

[sirch]

Is any sort of dust removal going on? IIRC, it can play hell with B&W scans. (Software removal rather than blower brush!)

I did have software dust removal turned on in the scanning software, I'll try with it off next time

 

[sirch]

Know what that reminds me of....

...insufficient fix

why frames next to each other would suffer so differently, is hard to say.
s'pose you could re-scan 6..

Certainly can re-scan, I'll probably try it tomorrow

 

[dmb]

I did have software dust removal turned on in the scanning software, I'll try with it off next time

That would cause problems with normal silver based monochrome film as it depends on dust blocking the infrared scan, silver blocks infrared very well. Chromogenic monochrome film like XP2 has no silver left in it only dye clouds.

 

[sirch]

That would cause problems with normal silver based monochrome film as it depends on dust blocking the infrared scan, silver blocks infrared very well. Chromogenic monochrome film like XP2 has no silver left in it only dye clouds.

Thanks, good to know.

 

[ChrisR]

If you mean the blotchiness round the fine branches in pic 1, then this does seem to me to be typical of what software dust removal (or infra-red based dust removal) can do. The simple rule is, sadly, never scan silver-based black and white (or Kodachrome) film with dust removal. If you use Silverfast, it has some masking techniques that would allow you to apply it only to sky areas where it can work quite well, but detail confuses it and attempts at "repair" can be catastrophic!

The second one has worked better but still has some issues in the more distant trees. However, I could be seeing something different from everyone else!

I'd say re-scan with dust removal off.

 

[PeterSpencer]

Epson Scan seems always to switch on the default sharpening which can be very offensive. Could that be the problem? I always try to switch the automatic sharpening off. I even tried to alter the registry setting for sharpening but the software switches it back on.

 

[PeterSpencer]

Actually, re-reading the post, it does look like dust removal stuff. I've had worse, to the point that it looks quite creative.

 

[sirch]

Thanks all, I re-scanned with dust removal turned off and it came out a lot better (well at least in some respects - at least it proves the dust removal works )

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[shapeshifter]

An observation scanning shows up the grain really bad in comparison to using an enlarger.