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#Digitizing negatives

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#73582From: Vince MacdonaldJun 23, 1987 10:55 PM
The new Digi-View software has a Pos/Neg switch which makes digitizing from negatives easy – just set it to "Neg" and follow the normal routine, using the RGB filters. Some of the "sliders" for adjusting the image work in reverse, e.g., increasing brightness gives a darker picture, increasing the blue makes the picture yellow, etc., but that's normal for negatives. You need lots of light and a very good negative – Digi-View seems to show up faults which wouldn't be obvious in a Kodacolor print. HAM mode works well if you have lots of different colors all about the same tone (i.e., they'd all be the same grey in a black-and-white print), but it generates a line of random-color pixels where a light area meets a dark one, so I don't use it much. I like 320×400 32-color, but .GIF doesn't support it yet, so the samples I uploaded are 320×200 – have you looked at them? Regards, Vince P.S. I changed the subject heading – when I download a message about Live! I want to to be about Live!, and I guess others feel the same <grin>.