Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22

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Subject: [Leica] Scanning the Wild Kodachrome
From: Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:07:41 -0800

Now that you've looked at my wildlife shot...

	http://www.2alpha.net/~pklein/oldpics/bighorn_bw.htm

...I must reveal that it's actually a Kodachrome 25 slide.  But in color, 
somehow it scans with purple and blue junk on the animals no matter what I 
do.  I guess this is an example of what Tony Sleep (filmscanners list 
moderator) calls an "UtterBastard Kodachrome."

Here's a smaller color version with some overall color cast correction 
applied, but there's still blue and purple near the highlights in some dark 
areas of the hair.

	http://www.2alpha.net/~pklein/oldpics/bighorn_blue.jpg

If I eliminate all the blue stuff with overall color cast correction, the 
whole thing turns very yellow.  So next I've done some correcting of the 
individual shades of blue.

	http://www.2alpha.net/~pklein/oldpics/bighorn_cc.jpg

This gets better, but there's still some hints of blue in the dark 
fur.  Much more than this, and it looks very artificial.

Nikon LS-2000, Vuescan and Picture Window Pro.  If anyone has suggestions 
on how to deal with these "blues," I'd love to hear them.  The lighting was 
very difficult, semi-overcast day with occasional sun breaks, so there was 
blue sky, reflecting clouds, high contrast, yatta yatta yatta.

I know that this picture can be printed well in color, because I've got a 
nice 8x10 of it hanging in my office.  The print was done by a local custom 
lab.

- --Peter Klein
Seattle, WA

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Replies: Reply from Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com> (Re: [Leica] Scanning the Wild Kodachrome)