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Subject: [Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:42:42 -0500
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Vince,

And actually I like the fact that the reds fade. Kodachrome 'reds' can
be a little over the top;-)

Jim

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:41 AM, James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I agree. I think I did solve the Vuescan problem by reinstalling it
> with the LS-4000 installed and initialized. I also discovered that if
> you let Vuescan use it's 'Generic' setting for scanning slides it's
> works much better (for me). I had it set for 'Kodachrome' initially
> and the blue cast was overwhelming, probably because many of my slides
> are 20+ years old. Funny though Nikon Scan had not problem with that,
> but it doesn't have the dust/scratch removal feature that Vuescan has
> which can be a lifesaver with old slides.
>
> I'm slowly climbing the learning curve but getting there.
>
> Jim Laird
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at 
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jim,
>> I was shocked at the rich colors of your first scan with the quarter-horse
>> foal and yr wife. My sense of Kodachrome that age not archivally treated 
>> for
>> two decades (refrigerated etc) is that the reds fade out and the image 
>> tends
>> toward to blue.
>>
>> V
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On May 09, 2010 at 02:51 PM -0500, James Laird wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just started using Nikon Scan and Vuescan and I'm having trouble
>>>> getting ?good scans of Kodachrome with Vuescan. All the scans have a 
>>>> blue
>>>> overcast like they need a skylight filter.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was just scanning some old Kodachrome in Nikonscan last night. ?My 
>>> scans
>>> tended a bit towards blue, especially if they had bad exposure. ?I know 
>>> that
>>> doesn't really help, but you are not alone.
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome)
Message from tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray) ([Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome)
Message from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome)
Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome)