Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] pardon my venting : DAMN I hate color work !
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:50:07 -0700

At 10:57 PM 6/11/2003 -0400, korenman wrote:
>Pardon for my venting:
>
>So after a few years of reading up on color management.. I gotta say.. I AM
>SICK OF WORKING IN COLOR. I do the fully profiled film->scan->PS->Fujix
>(sp?) route. Yes, I profile my monitor, my film, my scanner and printer.
>The toughest step/ weakest link? The accurate scanning of color negs!
>My colors are better than the average mini-lab work. BUT I HATE IT. The
>effort of all the PS tweaking is draining the fun out of it.
>...

Do you know that slides are easier to scan because it doesn't have the 
orange mask? I use a Nikon LS4000 and shoot with Provia 100/400F 99% of the 
time, and the colors are pretty dead on.


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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