[Leica] Faded Ektachrome

[Howard Ritter]

Peter,

I don’t know how this will compare with VueScan’s correction, but here <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/desktop/?g2_fromNavId=x85540aee> is what Photoshop’s Image > Auto Color did to a severely color-shifted 30-year-old Agfachrome that I scanned with VueScan (but didn’t use its built-in correction). I could hardly believe what one click did. Then I touched it up some more. Photoshop is digital magic.

—howard

> On Jan16, 2021, at 0053, 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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