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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Kodachrome scans
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat Oct 18 09:22:36 2008

The RSA gray balancer in Photokit Color 2 might help?? Just a guess.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:20 PM
> To: digitalusersgroup@yahoogroups.com; lug@leica-users.org;
> paw@micapeak.com; seephoto@micapeak.com
> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Kodachrome scans
> 
> 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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