Re: filmscanners: IT8 Calibration was Re: filmscanners: I love/hate SilverFast

["Steve Greenbank" <steve@gccl.fsbusiness.co.uk>]

> Rob, I want IT-8 calibration because I'm color blind and I want to reduce
the
> number of variables I have to deal with.  In theory, any of my calibrated
> scanners can be used to scan the same slide and the final files will all
be
> nearly identical.

I'm similarly afflicted and I went through a similar process, but in the end
I just preffered the results and simplicity of Vuescan. I also found I had
some serious noise problems in some Silverfast scans that didn't seem nearly
as bad in Vuescan. I am pretty certain digital cameras are not individually
calibrated but many of these manage realistic colour.

> Once again, my goal is to keep things as consistent as possible so that I
can
> do the final tweaking "by the numbers".

I tend to use numbers to check the colour balance (and sometimes my daughter
is final colour control)

Steve

P.S. When I did Art 'O' level the examiner commented "Interesting use of
colour!"