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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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Kodachrome and Minolta Elite 5400 scan
"GD" wrote in message m... I'am encountering problems scanning Kodachrome slides with an Elite 5400 scan. Did you switch-off Digital ICE? Bart |
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Kodachrome and Minolta Elite 5400 scan
Kodachrome has more Red, Ektachrome favors blue
Bob Williams wrote: 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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