Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The RSA gray balancer in Photokit Color 2 might help?? Just a guess. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug- > bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:20 PM > To: digitalusersgroup@yahoogroups.com; lug@leica-users.org; > paw@micapeak.com; seephoto@micapeak.com > Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Kodachrome scans > > PESO: > > I'm working on a quick project and have been scanning 20 year old > Kodachromes for the last couple of days. I'm still having problems, > even with Silverfast software. Kodachromes are just hard to > scan. The contrast seems to be beyond what scanners can handle but > it does work better scanning as RAW and processing in Lightroom. I > do have a question about color balance. The color is very different > in these slides because of the light at the time. Sometimes I was in > warm sunshine, sometimes in cool open shade, sometimes in dark > houses. So people's skin has everything from a green tinge to an > orange tinge. That's only really noticeable when they are displayed > next to each other on a web site. Should I adjust the color of the > skin to all be the same or should I allow for the differences in lighting? > > <http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/gallery/3837836_USV9B#396236971_c6eMg-A-LB> > http://tinyurl.com/5g7f46 > > This is the last one.- #91 Hit the before button until you get to > #51 and that will be all of these scans. I did two of the girl in > the blue huipil to show the warm and cool differences. > > TIA > > Tina > > Tina Manley > ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI > http://www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information