[filmscanners] RE: how to scan 'red' 'green' or 'blue' lights?

["Frank Paris" <frankparis@comcast.net>]

Yeah, they look fine in SuperJPG.

Frank Paris
frankparis@comcast.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of snsok@cox.net
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:20 PM
> To: frankparis@comcast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: how to scan 'red' 'green' or
> 'blue' lights?
>
>
> Frank and Paul,
>
> I prepared two examples and taught myself a lesson in the process.
>
> Here are two images:
>
> http://www.tallgrassimages.com/test/Azalea_example.tif
>
> This is a snip from a full-res scan on the SS4000. The film
> is either Velvia or Ektachrome Elite Extra Color (I have the
> slide filed away and I didn't label the scanned image). I
> included some surrounding foliage for comparison.
>
> Working with this image in Photoshop (Adobe98 colorspace), it
> appears overly saturated with the reds of the azalea blocked up.
>
> After I FTPed this image, I looked at it on my website with
> Internet Explorer. My system uses a QuickTime plugin to view
> TIFFs. I assume what I am seeing with QuickTime must not be
> color managed as the colors are much less saturated and yes,
> as Paul suggests, I can see much more detail in the reds.
>
> I posted this second image which I purposely overly saturated:
>
http://www.tallgrassimages.com/test/Azalea_example_more_saturated.tif

So it looks like what I assumed was a technical color problem was
actually a color management mistake.


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