Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Gerry, All you need to do is switch off the ICE (clean image) feature, just as you would with a B&W film. As for colour balance, it is no more difficult to get it right with Kodachrome with my Nikon LS-2000 than it is with E6 films. Nathan Gerry Walden wrote: > Like you, Nathan, I am a lover of Kodachrome but have been using Sensia > recently. I decided to change back to Kodachrome last week and bought 6 > rolls of Kodachrome 64 the same day as buying my new Nikon Coolscan 3 > scanner. Reading the scanner instructions, I find that it cannot get the > right colour balance with Kodachrome so, guess what, the Kodachrome had to > go back. Sadly, that is the current situation for me but I am told by Tina > Manly it is OK as long as you keep the 'Clean Image' software turned off. > I am still playing so I am not sure which way I am jumping at the moment. > I may well be shooting 4 remaining rolls of Kodachrome 200 today so that may > be the decider. The Tall Ships race is sailing down the river here in > Southampton past the new P&O cruise liner 'Aurora' and I have been invited > on a privately hired tug boat to go down and photograph it with the official > P&O photographer (just him and me). The sun is shining bright so it looks > like a good day for Leica glass whatever the film! > > Gerry - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/