Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim, You think it would be worth it to get Silverfast if I do a lot of scanning. I know Tina swears by it. B&H sells it for $389. Might save me some grief scanning B+W and Kodachrome. Jim Sent from my iPhone On May 11, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> wrote: > On May 10, 2010 at 11:38 PM -0500, James Laird wrote: >> Another Kodachrome scan with my LS4000, this time with Vuescan. Like >> all of us trying to kill the blues. Is it working? > > Nice shot. > > So I played around some more with some Kodachrome slides. Scanned > one thinking by accident that it wasn't Kodachrome and scanned it > with the 'positive' setting. Once I realized my mistake, I scanned > it again using the Kodachrome setting in Nikonscan. Lo and behold, > the picture was significantly bluer when scanned on the non- > Kodachrome setting. It was correctable, and while the one scanned > on the correct setting was much closer to the original, it still > needed a bit of correction. > > From what I recall of the color settings in Vuescan, there's no > Kodachrome setting. I've read that the yellow dye used in > Kodachrome looks differently to our eyes than it does scanner > electronics - probably something to do with the spectral width and > shape of it. As a result, your scans come out blue/cyan. Anyway, > if your software doesn't account for it, you probably will have to > in post. Nikonscan does some to account for this. Vuescan probably > doesn't. I think Silverfast does. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information