From the comp.periphs.scanners news group: >Subject: Re: Advise for old Kodachrome ? >From: "Ed Hamrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scanners >Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2003 2:56 AM >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >"Jean Delmas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am scanning old Kodachrome dias shooted in 1972 (Vuescan 7.6.64 + >> Nikon 4000ED). >> Results are surprising : much better with GENERIC type of slide film >> than with KODAK KODACHROME (strong yellow colour cast). > >It will look even better if you set "Input|Media type" to "Image". > >Regards, >Ed Hamrick > >
He said in a later posting that this was because of a bug in Vuescan, so expect changes in later versions of vuescan. I don't use any of the film types, ever, as they only seem to screw things up. I only use "GENERIC COLOR SLIDE", but I have calibrated my scanner. For old Kodachrome, I am doing one scan at automatic exposure to get what VueScan thinks is the correct exposure, and then (by hand) doing scans at 50%, 100%, 200%, and 400% of the "correct" exposure, and combining the resulting images in Photoshop. I find that Kodachrome records a larger latitude than my scanner can recover in one pass. A === Trevor Staats at Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:22:41 +1100 said: >Hi all, >Just wondering if anyone can offer advice on scanning Kodachrome slides with >VueScan using a Nikon LS-40. I am using the Kodachrome film type in >VueScan, but the results are usually quite dark and the saturation is poor. > >The scans need a fair bit of work to adjust brightness, contrast, colour >balance and saturation after scanning. There also seems to be a bleeding >effect where white/black areas adjoin each other on the picture. > >I've tried multi-pass and long exposure pas but the differences are minor. >Are there any other settings I could try to try and improve the scan >quality? > >Thanks, >Trevor Staats > >------------------------------------- >--------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe >filmscanners' >or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message >title or body > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
