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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Kodachrome scans
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Oct 18 09:05:57 2008
References: <200810172320.BCJ45361@rg4.comporium.net>

this is a very interesting photo Tina.....it is so well done and  
clearly taken under extreme circumstances...


however I'm concerned, I hope this doesn't mean that you will get to  
your recent Grand Canyon photos in 20 years....


;-)


Steve


On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> PESO:
>
> I'm working on a quick project and have been scanning 20 year old  
> Kodachromes for the last couple of days.  I'm still having problems,  
> even with Silverfast software.  Kodachromes are just hard to scan.   
> The contrast seems to be beyond what scanners can handle but it does  
> work better scanning as RAW and processing in Lightroom.  I do have  
> a question about color balance.  The color is very different in  
> these slides because of the light at the time.  Sometimes I was in  
> warm sunshine, sometimes in cool open shade, sometimes in dark  
> houses.  So people's skin has everything from a green tinge to an  
> orange tinge.  That's only really noticeable when they are displayed  
> next to each other on a web site.  Should I adjust the color of the  
> skin to all be the same or should I allow for the differences in  
> lighting?
>
> <http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/gallery/3837836_USV9B#396236971_c6eMg-A-LB 
> >
> http://tinyurl.com/5g7f46
>
> This is the last one.- #91  Hit the before button until you get to  
> #51 and that will be all of these scans.  I did two of the girl in  
> the blue huipil to show the warm and cool differences.
>
> TIA
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI
> http://www.tinamanley.com
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