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Subject: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri Jun 22 10:11:42 2007
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Sonny,

This morning I have experimented with my newly-purchased VueScan software. 
With my faded Ektachrome slides from 1955, I found that it was ok to select 
"restore fading", but if I combined "restore fading" and "restore colors", 
the color correction seemed to override the fading correction.  I scanned a 
number of slides with "restore fading" selected, and, in most cases, got 
acceptable results.  However, with a couple of slides, I could never get rid 
of the red cast.  I tried a number of things, but the software seems to have 
a mind of its own.

If you discover a way to force our own choices on the software, please let 
me know.  I feel it was a worthwhile investment for special cases where the 
Minolta software comes up short, but I really prefer the Minolta software 
for general use.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films


> I'm not sure what happened,  but one advantage to vuescan is that you only
> need to  scan once, then apply the software effects.  I'll look at it
> tomorrow and see if I can figure what happened.
>
> SonC
>
> On 6/21/07, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>> Doug,
>>
>> That's exactly what happened to me today with the trial version.  In my
>> case
>> the original slide was faded and had a red cast, but the preview choices
>> cleared that up quite a bit.  Then, when I scanned, the red returned as 
>> if
>> I
>> had made no corrections.  I was about to purchase a copy when I read your
>> comment.  Now, I'm not sure.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films
>>
>>
>> > Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hey, its bad enough that they stamp $s all over the image.  They don't
>> say
>> >>anything about dumbing down the software. That doesn't encourage to
>> spend
>> >>$40 before seeing what the software can do for me.
>> >>
>> >>Jim Nichols
>> >>Tullahoma, TN USA
>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >>From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
>> >>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> >>Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:37 PM
>> >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Heh, probably have to buy it.  ;-)
>> >>>
>> >>> On 6/21/07, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sonny,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> You did great with that one.  I tried with the trial version of
>> >>>> VueScan,
>> >>>> and
>> >>>> got the preview image to look pretty good. However, each time I
>> >>>> advanced
>> >>>> to
>> >>>> the final scan, it discarded my corrections and scanned the
>> uncorrected
>> >>>> image.  Where am I going wrong?  Do I have to do something to save
>> the
>> >>>> corrections?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Jim Nichols
>> >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
>> >>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:18 PM
>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > This is an image that was faded and had lost color.  I am pretty
>> >>>> > pleased
>> >>>> > at
>> >>>> > how this 40 something  ektachrome came out.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > http://www.sonc.com/ging.htm
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > On 6/21/07, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> Sonny,
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> I downloaded the trial version of VueScan and tried it, but I 
>> >>>> >> seem
>> >>>> >> to
>> >>>> get
>> >>>> >> better quality scans using the Minolta software.  I know that a
>> lot
>> >>>> >> of
>> >>>> >> folks
>> >>>> >> are happy with VueScan.  I might give it a try before I send a
>> slide
>> >>>> off
>> >>>> >> to
>> >>>> >> Richard for him to work his magic on it.
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> Jim Nichols
>> >>>> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> >>>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> >> From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
>> >>>> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> >>>> >> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:43 PM
>> >>>> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival Qualities of Slide Films
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> > Vuescan has Restore color and  fading and costs just  $40 
>> >>>> >> > bucks.
>> >>>> >> > It
>> >>>> is
>> >>>> >> a
>> >>>> >> > great scanning software.  Nice thing about it is that you can
>> >>>> continue
>> >>>> >> > scanning while you work on scanned items.
>> >>>> >> >
>> >>>> >> > Always made me mad to have to wait for the twain stuff to
>> complete
>> >>>> >> before
>> >>>> >> > you can start editing.
>> >>>> >> >
>> >>>> >> > http://www.hamrick.com/
>> >>>> >> >
>> >>>> >> > Sonny
>> >>>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've used and been happy with Vuescan for many years but then last 
>> > night
>> I
>> > had a &!@#* session with it where the preview looked great but the full
>> > scan was HORRID with much too much red.  Does anyone have a clue what
>> migh
>> > tbe wrong?
>> >
>> >
>> > Doug Herr
>> > Birdman of Sacramento
>> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>> >
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> USA
>
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