No one has ever heard of this?
On Saturday 06 May 2006 10:00, Quantum Scientific wrote: > Hello, > > Using the Microtek Scanmaker5 to scan 110 negatives in the transparency bay. > > I've found the Konica negative VX 100 color profile to give the richest > colors, but on a set of Kodak negs, suddenly they are scanning almost all > red. > > I notice that black blacks seem to scan as pure red, and do not understand > why. This scanner is supposed to have a very good dynamic range for its age, > and most of my other negs are scanning OK. Playing with Gamma, Contrast and > Brightness in the driver has no effect. Trying different neg profiles only > makes things worse. > > Then I found the Bit Depth setting under Standard Options in XSane, and > changed it from 8 to 12. I presume this is increasing dynamic range. > > Now the majority of the image is visible, although dark areas look like > bas-relief in red. There are still alot of pure red regions (255,0,0) though. > Is there any way to recover these negs? > > Running Debian Linux, Gimp for photo editing, and XSane with the Microtek2 > profile for scanning, and Sane 1.0.15. > > Can you advise? > > Bill Southwell >
