[Leica] Faded Ektachrome

Peter Klein boulanger.croissant at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 21:52:24 PST 2021


I'm in the process of digitizing more selected slides from my late 
mother's collection.  Mostly I'm using a digital camera and a macro lens 
and slide copy attachment, because it's fast.  That's working well for 
Kodachrome.  Unfortunately, several years in the collection are taken on 
Ektachrome, and the slides are quite faded--overall orange with decent 
remnants of the actual colors.  How well does Vuescan work in restoring 
the slide's colors to some reasonable facsimile of normal?  Should I 
spend some time figuring this out, or is there a better/faster solution?

There are lots of slides, and the digital output is for family viewing 
on computer screens, not prints for Great Art.

I'll be posting some of the Kodachrome scans from early-mid 1950s 
shortly.  Stay tuned.

--Peter



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