----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Loveless" Subject: Re: FIND
> This has been tossed around before once or twice. Both Tom Reese and I > have encountered problems scanning slides with lots of contrast. I > originally thought it was because I was using a flatbed with film > carriers, but Tom's using a dedicated film scanner and having similar > issues. I think he has a KM, but I'm not sure. > > Slides in general have been difficult. Getting the scan to look like > the slide is next to impossible. Canon's scanning software is the > worst. I tried vuescan, and that helped a little, but didn't solve the > problem. The parameters, as you called them, are certainly a big part > of my difficulties. Colors are off and contrast is bad. Kodachrome is > proving harder to scan than any E-6 film I've tried. If I can convince > myself to open the wallet for one I may get a Kodachrome calibration > target. Kodachrome has the highest D-Max of any film I tested (some here might recall the famous film test website), and also just about the clearest base. I don't recall the numbers offhand, unfortunately. It is also IR opaque, so software such as Digital Ice doesn't work. The big problem with scanning the stuff is the D-Max though. Kodachrome is, quite simply, outside the range of most film scanners. If the LS-40 scanners does the job, as Godfrey says it does, then that might be the equipment to use. I don't think a calibration target is going to help as much as a scanner with a longer range and higher bit depth. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
