Hi all. I'm staring a major scanning project of my old b&w and color negatives, slides. I'm scanning using 16 bit grayscale and importing into aperture. My question is, does anybody have a good tutorial/help with the adjustment settings. I would also like to use that setting to batch adjust all similar scans. I did a search but was not able to find anything. Any help would be dearly appreciated. Thank you.
it is usually best to use the black-and-white conversion in the Scanner software. VueScan for example has predefined adjustments for many types of negative film.
Scanning negatives in an easy and really good way is very unlikely in real world. I'm doing this for 20 years and tried lots of methods, softwares and scanners.
For me, the best solution about color negatives was what I describe here.
http://oldgoodlight.blogspot.com.br/p/scanning-negatives-in-raw.html
Believe me, color negatives are a pain. Even some well known commercial scanning programs are far from good.
Black and white ones are much easyer to manage. Usually you need to pay attention on the black/white levels and make a correction curve. But adjusts will vary a lot depending on how much the exposure was off.
settings for scanned B&W negatives
