Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, The unintended consequence of switching to E-6, as I did also, is that the dyes have started to shift/disappear, mostly tending toward blue. I've pretty much scanned all of my E-6 stuff before this dye-shift can claim whatever's left on the slide. I scan everything in raw with Vuescan and hope I've got all that's possible off the film before there's nothing left. It's a scary world of scanning/preserving. What I'd like to know is if there's really something left in the raw scan that I can recover/enhance to restore the image to its original glory. I haven't found that magic yet. Jim James R. Nelon Partner WNDA Studios O: +1.207.389.4676 C: +1.508.308.6525 Email: JNelon at WNDAStudios.com Website: https://WNDAStudios.com LinkedIn: https://LinkedIn.com/in/JamesNelon Highlight Reel: https://Vimeo.com/252904552 -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+jnelon=nelonassociates.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley via LUG Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:13 AM To: Leica Users Group Cc: Tina Manley Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Color Balancing (Blue Trees) Jim, I think you are right. That's about the time that I gave up on Kodachrome completely because they turned all of the processing over to Qualex who ruined about half of the film I sent them. Slides would come back with horrible stains or cut right through the middle of the frame for a whole roll. I started using E-6 and developing it myself. Thanks, Tina On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:02 PM jnelon <jnelon at nelonassociates.com> wrote: > Tina, > I'm so glad you posted your Kodachrome slides. I have been furiously > scanning my old slides, especially after I found some of the color problems > you're showing in your posts. I had thought Kodachrome would live forever. > Them I used a slide from Beijing that had some of the same characteristics > that you're experiencing. I was devastated thinking that I had lost a large > number of the Beijing show slides to this color problem. I haven't been > able > to figure out whether the dyes shifted, or whether we stored/shipped them > improperly and the heat/humidity took their toll. And then I tried to put > together a show using Kodachromes from 1992 when I did a WWII 50-year > retrospective in Europe. My slides of the Brandenburg gate had the same > gun-metal look to them as the one you posted recently. I spent forever > trying to add/subtract color or effects, with minimal satisfaction. And > then > you popped up with the same experience. I'm using a Nikon LS-4000 CoolScan > with Vuescan. I've tried all sorts of settings in Vuescan including ones > you've mentioned (infrared/cleaning/etc.), all to limited satisfaction. On > the other hand, I'm in the midst of scanning some truly old Kodachromes > from > my wife's grandparents, taken in the early '50's. The colors are virtually > unchanged, although the slide material itself frequently shows some > warping. > I'm left with the theory that perhaps Kodak changed some of its processing > chemistry or procedures during the 1980's-1990's era, as my Greece slides > from 1982 are also virtually worthless, from a color perspective. > I'm all ears to hear what you and others might think about any of this. > Jim > > James R. Nelon > Partner > WNDA Studios > O: +1.207.389.4676 > C: +1.508.308.6525 > Email: JNelon at WNDAStudios.com > Website: https://WNDAStudios.com > LinkedIn: https://LinkedIn.com/in/JamesNelon > Highlight Reel: https://Vimeo.com/252904552 > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+jnelon=nelonassociates.com at > leica-users.org] > On > Behalf Of Tina Manley via LUG > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:37 PM > To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; lug; paw; seephoto; Olympus Camera > Discussion > Cc: Tina Manley > Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Color Balancing (Blue Trees) > > PESO: > > I'm scanning 7000 slides from Switzerland, most of them Kodachromes, most > from 1989. One category is 56773 - Switzerland Countryside. If you have > been to Switzerland, you know that the Swiss countryside is beautiful. I > want to get it right. Here is the original scan, scanned on the Nikon > LS5000 with Vuescan set for Kodachrome: > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112330 > > It's too dark and the trees are blue. > > I lightened it and balanced the color based on the white house in the > foreground: > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112332 > > Everything looks fine except the trees in the distance are blue. I > remember them being blue but maybe I'm wrong. I subtracted the blue. > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112333 > > Now everything looks too green. I have many, many of these slides to > adjust and want to get it right but believable. > > What do you think? > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > < > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91 > /Tina+Manley.html > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91 /Tina+Manley.html> > > > *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html > <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>* > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91 /Tina+Manley.html> *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>* _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. 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