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Re: [OM] Kodachrome scans

Subject: Re: [OM] Kodachrome scans
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:26:51 -0700
At 07:59 AM 11/2/2000 +0000, Paul Reynolds wrote:
>Chip wrote:
>
>>The only film I have consistently had difficulty getting really nice scans
>>with has been Kodachrome, and it has been a problem child with both the HP
>>and Nikon scanners. I understand that the emulsion has some unique
>>properties that challenge most scanners. Maybe others do better.
>
>
>I have exactly the same problem trying to scan K64 on a Nikon Coolscan.
>Every I have spoken to seems to have the same experience, whatever the
>scanner.


Interesting.

The following photo was shot on K64, and scanned on a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 
at default settings (I used a generic "color slide" setting, if memory serves 
me):


     http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/wood/splendour.html


So far, I've had no problems scanning Kodachromes with my SprintScan 4000.  
Maybe I'm just lucky?

Garth




  
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