Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy, If your slide was stored in the dark then I would suspect little or no change in the colors. I could tell you a tale about some Ektachrome slides that are about thirty years old and probably processed in the new to that time washless E-6. The only color really available is red/magenta. Possibly why I switched to Fujichrome so long ago. But color is such a personal decision. We all see color differently. I was reminded of this when I was wandering through a bunch of Cezanne paintings with their strange palatte for skin tones. Did the color look to Cezanne like skin tone? How much impressionism was there? Anyway, keep posting. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 5/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Folks I've recently started a new album and have received some helpful > hints > and encouragement. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/analog-images > > > > One or two people made comment on an old scan of an abandoned farmhouse. > > One graciously shared with me what could be done with an 11X14 view > camera. > (thanks a bunch Jim, more gear to lust after when I'm trying to fund more > Leica glass right now!) > > For my interest and those helpful correspondents, I have located a similar > original from the same film. > > The original was in fact Kodachrome64 (Curse you K, why can't I buy it > anymore?) > > > > So, K64 about 20+yrs old, scanned with Nikon Coolscan V scanner. > > Was late afternoon certainly, and I think UV filter but not Polarizer. > > Both versions treated as identically as possible in PS; minimal crop for > format to A4 print, dust and scratch manually spot healed, > > minimal sharpen, But one using ROC (restoration of colour) and one > without. > > I personally prefer the ROC version, but then for me K64 was always the > colour as you'd like it to be rather than perhaps as it was. > > Really can't quite decide how much the original has faded. The curves & > saturation in each version are as scanned, minor B&W points compression. > > > > Anyway I was surprised to see that the ICE3 Nikon Scan software would work > at all on Kodachrome. > > Perhaps only the dust reduction doesn't work on K & B&W emulsions. > > If anyone else has experience in using this scanner, especially with other > software, I'd love to hear from you. I have the supplied Nikon Scan 4.02and > VueScan Pro.8.3.4.2 > > Specifically your workflow, especially from those folks who shoot a > hundred > times more film than this amateur every year. > > > > Cheers > > Hoppy, > > FNG > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >