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Kodachrome and Minolta Elite 5400 scan
I'am encountering problems scanning Kodachrome slides with an Elite
5400 scan. The pictures are rather dark and sometimes the colors saturated In fact, the scan is of poor quality vs what I can see on the slide I'm very surprised as I had no problem with negative films where I had only to use automatic correction in Photoshop; With the slides I have to change the gamma to high levels and I am never really satisfied with the result ... Who had encountered this kind of problem? Thank you for help! |
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Kodachrome and Minolta Elite 5400 scan
GD wrote: I'am encountering problems scanning Kodachrome slides with an Elite 5400 scan. The pictures are rather dark and sometimes the colors saturated In fact, the scan is of poor quality vs what I can see on the slide I'm very surprised as I had no problem with negative films where I had only to use automatic correction in Photoshop; With the slides I have to change the gamma to high levels and I am never really satisfied with the result ... Who had encountered this kind of problem? Thank you for help! There is something weird about Kodachrome. Unless the scanner has a special setting for Kodachrome, you usually get off colors. I don't know why, because to the eyes it looks just like Ektachrome. There must be some kind of UV filter coating that affects the transmission of certain visible wavelengths. I tried to make digital copies of Kodachrome slides with a Nikon 4300 and a slide copier. They came out way too orange. Ektachrome was fine.....Go figure. I was able to fix the Kodachrome images in Photoshop but it took a lot of fiddling around. Maybe someone else knows the precise explanation for the Kodachrome Anomaly. |
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