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[OM] Re: scanning print negatives and scanner exposure inconsistencies

Subject: [OM] Re: scanning print negatives and scanner exposure inconsistencies
From: Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:21:13 -0300

On May 26, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Moose wrote:

> The scanner software should compensate for the film base color in the 
> scanning process. Viewscan has a great many film base profiles built 
> in and adds more all the time.  A slide is not inherently neutral. The 
> base may be neutral (although Viewscan has base adjustment for slide 
> filme too.), but all slide films have color biases.

I would expect slide film's base to be pretty neutral since it's 
designed to be projected. However, you're right that they do have 
different colour biases (just look at Velvia for instance). Personally, 
I like the bias (it's part of the look) and find that using a film 
profile will tend to eliminate this. Usually, I like to preserve the 
look from the original slide and just leave Viewscan set to "image" for 
media type (as opposed to "slide film") this eliminates any film 
profiling and I find gives a very close match to the slide. Sometimes I 
still have to play around with the colour balance settings to get the 
best result (usually using "white balance" but sometimes "neutral" or 
"auto levels").

Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/


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