[Leica] [OT] Scanning Kodachrome help

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> 
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 18:30, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>> I spent decades going to a rental color lab on a regular basis where I 
>> made
>> my color prints with an omega head and  a Kreonite processor. Both color 
>> neg
>> and direct positive.
>> For a first  test print to come out with the snow showing 10 or 15 points
>> magenta was nothing. Its a first test. You correct it.
>> You don't go out and buy an new enlarger or a new brand paper.
>> There's nothing phony about it either.
>> The magenta is not suppose to be there.
>> Its called crafting a print.
>> And nowadays maybe there's no paper.
>> Your crafting an Jpeg. There's no paper.
>> 
>> To me not having Photoshop is like you want to do it without an omega 
>> head.
>> Which you could easily do if you wanted to hire somebody to Photoshop all
>> your pix for you. Which I think would make you amazingly lazy.
>> We can learn new stuff here just because we're older than 2 or 3 decades
>> old.
>> 
> 
> I have never enjoyed darkroom work. I did a lot of B&W printing in high 
> school
> and very little since then. I don't like the smell, the chemicals, and the
> long hours trying to manipulate the negative to get the perfect print. It's
> why I shot Kodachrome for many years. But that is my perspective.
> 
> I admire people who can do magic with PS. I remember when Tina made someone
> disappear from her picture (from China I think that had a wall in the
> background) a few years ago in an hour or 2. [Bowing to a mistress of PS 
> :-))
> ]
> 
> Could I master PS? Of course, given the time. I find, most of the time, the
> simple control in something like Aperture is plenty for my need (cropping,
> correct colour temperature, and that's about all). But to me, PS is the
> digital darkroom. Whatever I need to know to accomplish my goals and that 
> is
> good enough.
> 
> It's not a question of learning something new. In my field, if you cannot
> learn a new technology every 18 months or less (again and again), you are 
> very
> obsolete. It's just my brain is too small and I have to pick what I stuff
> inside. All the extra bits dribbles out the ears.
> 
> The only client I really have to keep happy is me, fortunately. :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Spencer
> 
> 
Yes but your the one with tens of thousands of dollars of photo gear who
does not know how to get rid of a simple 12 point magenta correction.
A thing any kid with Photoshop could do in a minute and not think twice
about it afterwards.

Mark William Rabiner