scanning help please

[Dobick]

The following was shot with tmax100 and scanned in using a canoscan 8600. I have printed it up to 8x12 and it looks as good as any of my digital stuff. It was shot with an old kodak retinette so it really isn't the greatest of cameras (I like using it and it does great with B&W - color rendition is a little flat)

[venchka]

Kent,

Sounds like a lens from the high resolution/low contrast school of thought. I like them. Keep sharing.

[studiocygnet]

What I have discovered, is that older slides and negatives actually do tend to fade in blotches, especially in large areas of similar color, like sky, skin, and backgrounds. And if you have your scanner set up to get the best detail, it will scan those old slides to have a lot of noise in what is supposed to be smooth areas of color. I use a Nikon Coolscan V for slides, and especially the skies look noisy. So I've taken to do this as a solution.
When opening in ACR, which I think is similar to Lightroom, I make one copy with the clarity turned down, so that the smooth areas stay smooth. Then I make another for better detail. Sandwich them together as two different layers and use a layer mask to erase the area from one that you don't want. You can even erase with grey to let some detail in if needed.

[rwwright]

i will try that. lightroom wont do layers etc, but after getting the two copies, i can send them to photoshop.