[Leica] Faded Ektachrome

[Sonny Carter]

In Vuescan, under filter tab there are boxes to tick, restore color,
restore fading.   Those often help.

If fading is the issue, or a slide is underexposed, I've found it valuable
to scan to a negative and adjust the density and then invert the image in
Photoshop.

If it is real bad, I just convert to black and white.


Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:52 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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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