[filmscanners] RE: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

> From: Nagaraj, Ramesh
>
> 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?

With my LS-2000, I've always found that positive scans worked pretty well.
Negatives are a different story, though. I've tried both NikonScan and
SilverFast, and never been able to get a good handle on color. Fortunately,
I've never shot very much negative film. But in theory, it shouldn't be any
harder to get good color from scanning negatives, given profiles specific to
the film type.

But I think that digicams ultimately have an advantage over film, either
positive or negative, and that's that they directly convert light into
numbers. With film, the image goes through two difficult to control
photochemical processes that aren't intrinsically very linear. I find it
utterly amazing that it works as well as it does, especially with slides. My
digicam experience is limited to 2MP and 5MP cameras, but after over a year
I find the color rendition to be much more satisfying than film. The overall
white balance may be off in the raw shot, but that's a trivial fix in
Photoshop. There is a bit of a learning curve, since digicams do have less
exposure latitude, but I find that film scans, even from slides, take more
fixing than direct digital photographs.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

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