At 03:15 PM 1/27/2003, you wrote:
>One problem with scanner, at-least for me, is I had to do a lot of colour
>correction.
>Since photography is not my profession, I had to read a lot about it.
>Even with all these effort, colour correction takes lot of time and I am
>not satisfied with my SKILL.
>I think something needs to be done to improve this, may be by providing
>film/slide profile for
>each film/slide. Except for this I am very happy with Film-Scanner
>combination and will
>continue for another 2 years.
>
>I have not used any DSLR. Does DSLRs produce accurate colours?
Maybe... It depends a lot on what you mean by "accurate colours". Our eyes
are very adoptable, so we think that a white paper in slightly yellow light
(tungsten lamps for instance) is "white", at the same time as the same
white paper looks white outdoors in a snow-clad landscape. If you were to
analyze the colour of that in the different situations, the latter is quite
blue and the former quite yellow. But our brain automatically adjusts the
colour to resemble white in both instances. A camera (or piece of film,
really) is not going to adjust itself, it gets hit by photons at certain
wavelengths, which activates certain pgiments in the film, which gives the
colour it gets.
The same applies to a CCD (or any other photo-electric device that "cares"
about colours). So the colour of the Digital camera will depend on the
incoming light.
Now, guessing from the way you describe it, it may be that you have a
different problem, which is that you're scanner (or rather the software
you're using with it) is not white-balancing to your taste, and the colour
is off in some way when you see the prints on screen or printed. Different
scanners have different software.
I've got a Canon FS2710, and it comes with a pretty decent piece of
software, but a software called VueScan is MUCH better. Included in that is
a number of settings for how it will "white-balance". I find that if I
choose "Automatic", I'm mostly happy with the results, but there are ways
to adjust this manually, should the result not be satisfactory. It costs
$40 from . There's loads of other features that may
or may not be useful to you, like film-type settings for a whole bunch of
different types of film (in case your film-base isn't "typical", for
instance).
Of course, it could also be that your scanner (or software) is seeing more
of certain colours for some other reason, or something else is up with your
scans...
With the right software, and reasonable original film-pieces (this is of
course important, if the picture is blue on the film, and you didn't want
it blue, "automatic" settings CAN not fix this), you should get decent
results, that doesn't need much work to "fix".
--
Mats
>Thanks
>Ramesh
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