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Subject: [Leica] scanning old Kodachromes
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun May 28 07:22:25 2006
References: <000001c68231$1efad040$6501a8c0@asus930> <9b678e0605280717s18cdbe9u73f980e8af948418@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Don...see my little question below please...

and enjoy your Sunday...


On May 28, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Don Dory wrote:

> Hoppy,
> If your slide was stored in the dark


how about in the dark... but occasionally exposed to  hi  
temperatures....  as here in Arizona...?  thanks, Steve


> then I would suspect little or no
> change in the colors.  I could tell you a tale about some  
> Ektachrome slides
> that are about thirty years old and probably processed in the new  
> to that
> time washless E-6.  The only color really available is red/magenta.
> Possibly why I switched to Fujichrome so long ago.
>
> But color is such a personal decision.  We all see color  
> differently.  I was
> reminded of this when I was wandering through a bunch of Cezanne  
> paintings
> with their strange palatte for skin tones.  Did the color look to  
> Cezanne
> like skin tone?  How much impressionism was there?
>
> Anyway, keep posting.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 5/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Folks I've recently started a new album and have received some  
>> helpful
>> hints
>> and encouragement.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/analog-images
>>
>>
>>
>> One or two people made comment on an old scan of an abandoned  
>> farmhouse.
>>
>> One graciously shared with me what could be done with an 11X14 view
>> camera.
>> (thanks a bunch Jim, more gear to lust after when I'm trying to  
>> fund more
>> Leica glass right now!)
>>
>> For my interest and those helpful correspondents, I have located a  
>> similar
>> original from the same film.
>>
>> The original was in fact Kodachrome64 (Curse you K, why can't I  
>> buy it
>> anymore?)
>>
>>
>>
>> So, K64 about 20+yrs old, scanned with Nikon Coolscan V scanner.
>>
>> Was late afternoon certainly, and I think UV filter but not  
>> Polarizer.
>>
>> Both versions treated as identically as possible in PS; minimal  
>> crop for
>> format to A4 print, dust and scratch manually spot healed,
>>
>> minimal sharpen, But one using ROC (restoration of colour) and one
>> without.
>>
>> I personally prefer the ROC version, but then for me K64 was  
>> always the
>> colour as you'd like it to be rather than perhaps as it was.
>>
>> Really can't quite decide how much the original has faded. The  
>> curves &
>> saturation in each version are as scanned, minor B&W points  
>> compression.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway I was surprised to see that the ICE3 Nikon Scan software  
>> would work
>> at all on Kodachrome.
>>
>> Perhaps only the dust reduction doesn't work on K & B&W emulsions.
>>
>> If anyone else has experience in using this scanner, especially  
>> with other
>> software, I'd love to hear from you. I have the supplied Nikon  
>> Scan 4.02and
>> VueScan Pro.8.3.4.2
>>
>> Specifically your workflow, especially from those folks who shoot a
>> hundred
>> times more film than this amateur every year.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Hoppy,
>>
>> FNG
>>
>>
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