Well, I managed to resurrect my LS-2000--it had some grit on the lead screw that stopped the flimsy stepper motor in its tracks. I hadn't used it in over a year, and I also just did a clean reinstallation of Windows 2000 and the current version of NikonScan from the Nikon web site. My first scans came out dark, and with a nasty blue cast. I've tried everything--making sure none of the color controls are enabled, turning dICE on and off, turning auto-exposure on and off, and so on, yet still things come out blue.
The last two images in http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/test_images show what's happening. The "Test scan" image is a scan of a particular Kodachrome slide, with no editing. The "Test slide" image is the same image, with heavy Levels manipulation to get it to look as close as possible to the slide. So you can see that all the colors are there--it's not as though the red LED blew out--but the color balance is waaay off. I figured, what do I really care how it comes out as long as it's consistent? After all, I have profiling software, and I can just assign the appropriate custom-built profile once the image is in Photoshop, to fix everything. So next, I put in an IT8 target and scanned it. Miracle of miracles, the scan came out looking almost exactly like the slide. No dark image, no blue cast. Obviously, the scanner is messing with the image in a way that will utterly confound any attempt to profile it. It smells to me like autoexposure is altering the image. Strangely, if I turn autoexposure off, I get _exactly_ the same image as if I turn autoexposure on. That sort of suggests to me that autoexposure is happening even if I tell it not to, due to some software bug, and that that's what's causing the problem. Has anyone encountered a problem like this with NikonScan, and found a solution? Any ideas? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
