Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15

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Subject: [Leica] Transparency film and purple clouds
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard F. Man)
Date: Fri Oct 15 01:17:15 2004
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Provia (actually all Fuji slides) is known to scan blue even AFTER scanner 
profiling. I have now gotten very accurate except slightly blue scans from 
my slides. Very simple to fix so I am living w/ it. If Kodak ever release a 
finer grain E100G, I would try that. Before that, Provia rocks!!

At 12:05 AM 10/14/2004, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> > > Is this shift toward the blue the way transparency films react to
> > > under exposure? I was shooting Provia at 100.
> >
> > I think it's a Provia thing.  Try E100G, I seem to get better shadows 
> than with Provia.
>
>Doug's probably right. I experience the same blue cast in my scans. I'm
>not so sure it's a Provia thing or a scanner thing.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com)
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