Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Jayanand. Kodachrome is anyway notoriously hard to scan. In general, when I scan film (as I am doing right now, just received 4 rolls of B&W from the lab in Barcelona) I just make sure that no highlights are blown nor shadows blacked out in the scan. A nice, dull scan is what I am after. Any corrections are made in Lightroom or Photoshop afterwards. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >