However, for "fine art", especially B&W, you simply lose too much tonal range IMO. In fact many prefer that more contrasty, punchy look. And it might not matter that the highlights or shadows are clipped. If that happens I tell the scanner to scan for a positive image and invert and tweak. VueScan offers great control of clipping when making tone and color adjustments but assumes the final refinement of tone and color adjustments will be done with image-editing software. But if all you want is a fairly nice looking image file straight from your scanner for printing snaps and such Nikon Scan can be adequate. In some cases with thick negatives it may make the highlights too light. Vuescan simply does a better job for that and is much more powerful a program when dealing with difficult or challenging negatives. From there you have more flexibility and more to work with for burning, dodging, color cast, tonal correction, etc when crafting and creating the best image file for printing. Nikon Scan might give what appears to be a better "push button" result straight from the scanner but a more flat looking scan which includes more tonal range is a better basic "clay" to start with in Photoshop. ![]() Nikon Scan handles color poorly especially for color negs and it too often clips the shadows and highlights considerably. Otherwise, the gray color is taken from either the red, green, blue or infrared channels. The default, Auto, either uses the scanner hardware to convert from the color CCD to gray, or converts in VueScan, mostly from the green channel. But saw little difference and still had my same problems. I have been using Vuescan to scan slide film and color negs with a Coolscan V for many years with great effect. This option specifies how to make the gray color from the scanner’s red, green, blue and infrared sensors. The newer version can be downloaded and works with the LS-4000 too. I made no changes to anything from when my scans were working as expected. Some of them are so dark as to be unusable and tweaking the settings doesn't seem to fix it. ![]() Were scanning in greyscale, so choose Gray. However on Tuesday my scans all started coming out dark despite the preview being bright. Output Colorspace: For color scanning, you have a choice of output colorspaces, like sRGB and Adobe RGB(1998). The older versions (that came with the LS-4000) and the newer versions of Nikon Scan are little different, especially in interface and usage. For the last month everything has been going fine and I made good progress scanning.
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