[filmscanners] Re: Color Management System and NikonScan 3.1.2 (PC)

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Ed,

I use NikonScan with the CMS off (running it from PS via Twain). When the
image loads into PS, it has no profile, so simply displays in whatever
working space you have set as your default (which is not what you want). I
then Assign the LS4000 profile (NKLS4000LS40.icm) from the folder where
Nikon puts its scanner profiles, and then Convert to whatever color space I
want. By avoiding the Nikon CMS, you get PS to do the conversion, and can
choose any working space rather than just those listed in NikonSCan.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Verkaik" <verkaik@sympatico.ca>

In NikonScan, the best results I see come with Colour Management on,
using "Scanner RGB."  This is their widest gamut setting for PC.
Apparently, if I were to turn CMS off, it defaults to the Windows RGB
standard (ICM?).  When PS7 opens these files, the "profile mismatch"
dialog comes up and I opt to discard the profile.

Can anyone explain if this is a problem and what a better solution might
be? Or, does it matter all that much, given that I do not want to be
over-meticulous and want to keep things simple even if not absolutely
perfect.  What would be an easy non-calibrated set of choices for the
scanning and PS file work?

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