RE: filmscanners: No luck with Superia 400

["Shough, Dean" <dean.shough@lmco.com>]

> Very strange.  I've tried everybody's suggestions, scanning under SGH,
> NGH, Real 100 (Japan) even Royal Gold 400, but a shot I have of a
> blood-red DayLily keeps coming out deep purple.  Any ideas?
>

> The problem may lie with the film, not the scanner.  If the film sees
> colors differently than the eye sees them, then apparent color shifts can
> occur. This is related to metamerism.  If the film is sensitive to very
> deep blue or near ultraviolet that the eye has little sensitivity to, what
> appears red to the eye will appear red+blue=magenta (purple) to the film.
> 
> For a technical explanation with examples see
> http://www.rmphoto.com/Documents/Color%20Accurate%20Photography.pdf
> 
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> Dean Shough
> dean.shough@lmco.com
>