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Subject: [Leica] [OT] Scanning Kodachrome help
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:54:40 +0530
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Spencer,
Correct for each by using layers/masks.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've been working on scanning some Kodachrome slides using mostly Vuescan 
> as that is the one I am most familiar with. I've calibrated my scanner 
> with an IT8 target I bought from Silverfast in both Vuescan and 
> Silverfast. I've calibrated my MacBook Pro's screen with a Datacolor 
> doohickey.
>
> One group of slide has been very hard to scan. I can't seem to get rid of 
> an magenta'ish cast. The pictures was shot on an overcast day [Edith 
> Cavell glacier, Jasper National Park (Canada)]. The original slide has a 
> beautiful milky green tone to the water and the snow banks was almost 
> white - definitely not magenta.
>
> If I correct for the snow, the water turns grey. If I correct for the 
> water, the magenta cast gets worse.
>
> I've tried this in both Silverfast and Vuescan. Both gives similar 
> results. It's driving me crazy.
>
> Here is an example of a very bad scan from Silverfast.
>
> <http://www.aotera.org/tmp/ice.jpg>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Spencer
>
>
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] [OT] Scanning Kodachrome help)
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