Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Merely haven't done any colour film scanning since I got my DS, almost a > year ago. Now, I've had to find I've lost about three years' worth of > film scans and I'm starting all over again. > > Seems I had almost forgotten what a drag this is. How can it be that a > 700 euro dedicated film scanner and a computer that performance-wise > would have been the pride and joy of every met service, just a few years > ago, aren't able to produce a remotely correct colour balance while > every cheapo digicam can? > > Still have to see the first colour picture from my DS come out only half > (make that a tenth, actually) as bad as what I'm getting from a > computer/scanner system that has cost several times the price of the DS. > > Ralf > > *) Minolta 5400 > **) Mac Dual G5 >
Getting good results from film scans requires a lot of work. Colour balance from reality is much easier to do than from a neg. And it doesn't help that the Minolta software isn't exactly great. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
