Exposure-control tab

The exposure-control tab allows the scanner’s exposure system to be customized to specific films, lighting, or a personal exposure index based on the film, processing, lens, and shutter combination. This can also be used to compensate for badly exposed film.

Simply click the exposure-control tab to display the selected image. If the prescan button is yellow, make a prescan. If any changes are made to exposure, the image-correction tab turns red (Windows) or an asterisk is displayed on the tab (Macintosh).

The master slider and text box control the overall exposure. The R, G, and B sliders and text boxes are used to compensate for any color shift.

Load setting button

Save setting button

Reset button

Apply button

Adjust the sliders or enter values between ±2 in 0.1 increments in the text boxes. Click the apply button to view the effect on the preview image and the histograms; the button turns red after each change indicating the adjustment is not applied to the preview image. Repeat until the desired result is achieved. To cancel all set- tings, click the reset button and click the apply button to initialize the preview image.

When using autoexposure, adjustments are made in reference to the exposure determined by the AE system. To calibrate the scanner in reference to a standard exposure, turn the autoexposure functions off in the preference window (p. 40); set exposure control for negatives to manual or uncheck the auto-expose- for-slides check box. This is recommended when making settings for specific films.

The exposure control tab cannot be used with

Digital ROC or SHO.

Saving exposure settings

Click the save setting button to open the save window.

Enter the name for the setting file. Click OK.

Loading exposure settings

Click the load setting button to open the load window.

Click on the file name to highlight it. Click OK to apply the settings to the image displayed in the exposure-control tab. Confirm the autoex- posure settings in the preferences window (p. 40).

Scanner Notes

To delete a setting file, open the load window and click on the file name to highlight it. Use the keyboard delete key to erase the file.

Saving the index thumbnails

The index images can be saved in one image file. The film holder does not have to be in the scanner to save the images, but all the frames in the film holder, including empty frames, must have been scanned.

Click the save index-image button in the index palette. The save-as dialog box appears.

Enter the file name, and select the file destination and file format for the image data. Click the save button to create the file

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Advanced scanning

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