On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, fotografia - tomasz zakrzewski wrote:
> Do Nikon filmscanners come with special colour profiles for scanning
> different colour negatives? Somebody told they don't. In that case, how can
> I automatically remove the orange mask?
> What about the new Nikon scanners?
Don't know about Nikon scanners in particular,
but every film scanner I've worked with has
some facility to do this, and it works with
reasonable success, most of the time. Different
scanners will come with different sets of such
profiles; some have more, some have less. The
"quality" of such profiles is debatable, in almost
all cases, but you can usually find one that
gets you close.
Problem is that the color characteristics
of the orange mask vary -- from one film
lot to another, and in particular, as a
function of the processing of the film.
It would be nice if the scanner vendors
provided an applet that allowed one to
create an orange-mask filter for any
particular film. All you really need,
I think, is a blank (unexposed) frame.
Another problem, I think, is that "pros"
are assumed to be working with positive
transparencies (slides) -- so the scanner
vendors regard the scanning of negatives
to be a low priority. But this is changing,
I think, as folks realize some of the
benefits of scanning negative film.
rafe b.
