Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don...see my little question below please... and enjoy your Sunday... On May 28, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Don Dory wrote: > Hoppy, > If your slide was stored in the dark how about in the dark... but occasionally exposed to hi temperatures.... as here in Arizona...? thanks, Steve > then I would suspect little or no > change in the colors. I could tell you a tale about some > Ektachrome slides > that are about thirty years old and probably processed in the new > to that > time washless E-6. The only color really available is red/magenta. > Possibly why I switched to Fujichrome so long ago. > > But color is such a personal decision. We all see color > differently. I was > reminded of this when I was wandering through a bunch of Cezanne > paintings > with their strange palatte for skin tones. Did the color look to > Cezanne > like skin tone? How much impressionism was there? > > Anyway, keep posting. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 5/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >> Folks I've recently started a new album and have received some >> helpful >> hints >> and encouragement. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/analog-images >> >> >> >> One or two people made comment on an old scan of an abandoned >> farmhouse. >> >> One graciously shared with me what could be done with an 11X14 view >> camera. >> (thanks a bunch Jim, more gear to lust after when I'm trying to >> fund more >> Leica glass right now!) >> >> For my interest and those helpful correspondents, I have located a >> similar >> original from the same film. >> >> The original was in fact Kodachrome64 (Curse you K, why can't I >> buy it >> anymore?) >> >> >> >> So, K64 about 20+yrs old, scanned with Nikon Coolscan V scanner. >> >> Was late afternoon certainly, and I think UV filter but not >> Polarizer. >> >> Both versions treated as identically as possible in PS; minimal >> crop for >> format to A4 print, dust and scratch manually spot healed, >> >> minimal sharpen, But one using ROC (restoration of colour) and one >> without. >> >> I personally prefer the ROC version, but then for me K64 was >> always the >> colour as you'd like it to be rather than perhaps as it was. >> >> Really can't quite decide how much the original has faded. The >> curves & >> saturation in each version are as scanned, minor B&W points >> compression. >> >> >> >> Anyway I was surprised to see that the ICE3 Nikon Scan software >> would work >> at all on Kodachrome. >> >> Perhaps only the dust reduction doesn't work on K & B&W emulsions. >> >> If anyone else has experience in using this scanner, especially >> with other >> software, I'd love to hear from you. I have the supplied Nikon >> Scan 4.02and >> VueScan Pro.8.3.4.2 >> >> Specifically your workflow, especially from those folks who shoot a >> hundred >> times more film than this amateur every year. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Hoppy, >> >> FNG >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information