Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I can see why you want to scan it: beautiful shot. My suggestion would be to use LR to correct the colour cast in the snow without affecting the water. I presume its an "aging" effect on the film > Folks, > > I've been working on scanning some Kodachrome slides using mostly Vuescan > as that is the one I am most familiar with. I've calibrated my scanner > with an IT8 target I bought from Silverfast in both Vuescan and > Silverfast. I've calibrated my MacBook Pro's screen with a Datacolor > doohickey. > > One group of slide has been very hard to scan. I can't seem to get rid of > an magenta'ish cast. The pictures was shot on an overcast day [Edith > Cavell glacier, Jasper National Park (Canada)]. The original slide has a > beautiful milky green tone to the water and the snow banks was almost > white - definitely not magenta. > > If I correct for the snow, the water turns grey. If I correct for the > water, the magenta cast gets worse. > > I've tried this in both Silverfast and Vuescan. Both gives similar > results. It's driving me crazy. > > Here is an example of a very bad scan from Silverfast. > > <http://www.aotera.org/tmp/ice.jpg> > > Any suggestions? > > Regards, > Spencer > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >