On 6/10/07, Bill Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In my case, I gave up on scanner profiling, at least for now, and I
> > cheat.
> Ah ha!
>
> I am interested in this, as I went to shooting almost all color neg a number
> of years ago. As I have understood it, it is impossible to profile a scanner
> to a color neg film.
>
> The IT8 targets depend on using a special, highly controlled process of
> shooting and processing a piece of film (or a whole lot of them), and then
> measuring what is on that film. The information is then laced into a file
> that you download off the manufacturer's website or is supplied with the
> target. The computer that runs your scanner then compares the output with
> the reference.
>
> If you shoot a reflective target yourself, you lack the reference. I don't
> suppose that any old densitomiter will do.
>
> I don't remember the reason that it is presumed impossible to profile neg
> films. I remain interested in Silverfast software, as they seem to have the
> color neg thing best handled, but it's just too expensive.
>
> Bill Pearce
With Vuescan you shoot the target, scan it and then Vuescan lines it
up with the reference that Kodak (or whoever) provides for it and that
creates the profile.
Why not just try it? The cost makes the experiment pretty inexpensive.
Joel W.
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