Much better now, Moose:
1- Nikon Scan 4.x.x can only set white point using the eyedropper, not
numerically I fear. I decided not to set a white point, but to reduce
Luminosity just a little, and light blue sky showed up.
2- Main issue to preserve red-orange-yellow while getting the green
bronze, was a better gray point: found one somewhere around the
rectangular windows of the Cathedral wall.
3- 1x and 16x were as sharp, and 16x histogram looked far better, mainly
in the red.
4- Nevertheless, the Ektachrome was still better in the reds and even
slightly more magenta which resulted in a more natural Italian look.
Also, noticeable sharper (very obviously at the red tiles of the Dome
roof) despite an USM of 50 pixel radius at 20% in Nikon Scan 4.x.x.
Don't know how to understand the pale red hue: gained green in the
bronze but lost red in the tiles, just because of a different gray point.
Seems that I have no choice but to work this around in PS. .... when I
have the time, it's too late now and must be at work tomorrow rather
early in the morning.
Muchas gracias,
Fernando.
Moose wrote:
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>> If the chrome is sharp, something has gone wrong either in the scanning
>> process or the PS processing.
>>
>> ......
>>
>>>> I did add a little blue to the sky, which is way burned out in the 16 bit
>>>> .tiff but faintly light blue in the Ektachrome .... fear this 4000ED is
>>>> not working as it should.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Probably not the scanner. More likely the software and operator. The
>>> loss of subtle sky color sounds like the White Point is set wrong,
>>> resulting in unwanted clipping.
>>>
>>>
>> wellllllllllllll, yes: white point was somewhere in the sky area, where
>> I found level was the highest. Right now I'm learning that I should have
>> selected a *white* pixel - difficult task I guess.
>>
>>
> I don't know what software you are using. Is there a way to set it
> numerically, rather than with a dropper?
>
>>> On the other hand, the shadows could use some judicious combination of
>>> multiple scanner passes, increased black point and/or noise reduction.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Increased black point was done, scanner passes were the most it can do,
>>
> Try a single pass scan and look at it at 100% to make sure it isn't
> multi-scanning that's causing the odd multiple image looking focus.
>
>>
>> noise reduction ... what's that?
>>
>>
> :-)
>
> Moose
>
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