[Leica] Faded Ektachrome

[Tina Manley]

Yes, I agree totally with Sonny.  Try the restore color in Vuescan.  It
usually works great.  If not, convert to B&W.

Tina

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:33 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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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> 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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