Thanks for the suggestions, John. See some of my comments below.
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, johnprendergast.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> When I have scanned Portra 400 NC, using the correct setting, the result is
> very good indeed, Are you sure you are using the right colour balance, i.e.
> White Balance etc, and also, ensuring that you are cropping down to film
> only, and not including the surrounding clear film, or holder.
> Have your films been correctly exposed and processed ?, I'm not picking,
> just looking at every possibility.
I've never tried Portra 400NC so I can't say if I would have the same
problem with it. I usually use auto-levels but since I had problems with
the 160NC, I tried pretty much all the options and they mostly seemed
worse. I manually cropped down to the image area before doing the final
scan and those did not appear substantially different than the preview
displayed in VueScan (equally ugly).
The film was exposed in daylight with fill flash, mostly using aperture
priority on a Canon EOS 55 (Elan IIe) with 380EX flash and Sigma 70-200
EX HSM APO. I haven't had any exposure problems with this setup. The
prints from the film look great. After much work in Photoshop, I was able
to balance the scans to look pretty much like the prints. However, I
wouldn't like to put that much effort into every scan.
I'll try it again with the new version of VueScan, since it now has more
exposure options for the Canon FS2710 and also the new brightness/contrast
control.
Any other tips or experiences from others on scanning Portra 160NC?
-Collin
