Tony,
Your response covers the negative aspect and for that I would be inclined to
accept your inclination; however, I think the problem arises from trying to
digitalize via scanner what colors the film has captured in its gamut so as
to reproduce it digitally in a color gamut that can be presented on a
monitor display or digital inkjet or other type of digital print. Just as
there are differences in what negative films can capture versus transparency
films, there may be a significant difference in what film and traditional
photographic prints can capture in terms of color and digital color spaces
can handle. Just some speculative mental masturbation. :-)
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From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of
TonySleep@halftone.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:11 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Difficult scan problem
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:59:51 -0500 Laurie Solomon (laurie@advancenet.net)
wrote:
> Since there are various types of fluorescent tubes that
> can generate a variety of color casts, I would suggest that one would
> probably need some information on what type of tube is being used in the
> microscope lamp and what sorts of luminescences it in combination with
> the
> subject generate that the film may see and register that would be out of
> gamut for digitalization, for monitor color spaces, or for printer color
> spaces to determine if it indeed can be digitally reporduced as it
> appears
> on the transparency or on the photographic prints from the negatives.
Hmm. I'm sure you're right, in a thoroughgoing, theoretical sense. My
inclination would just be to suck it and see what you can get out the end
of the process, given that there's not much which escapes modern colour
neg, although there are bound to be minor changes and distortions of hue.
Regards
Tony Sleep
- Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info
& comparisons
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