[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 "blown out" yellows and no blueinformation; where is my problem?

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Well, after 10,000 scans and prescans, perhaps it needs a good refurb or
cleaning?  That's a lot of hours it's been in use, and a duty cycle even
Polaroid would be proud of, I'd think.

Art



Frank Paris wrote:
> Is this a new problem? How long have you had your SS4000 and how many
> images have you scanned with it? Maybe your scanner is just getting old.
> I've had mine for a couple years and have put about 10,000 slides and
> negatives through it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's acting up on me
> after all that. With VueScan, I get two different results: absolutely
> outstanding that requires virtually no tweaking in Photoshop and pale
> and excessively low contrast, and this from negative to negative which
> to the naked eye all seem to have approximately the same density. I can
> almost always recover a semblance of the "real" image that is there
> through various radical techniques in Photoshop, so I can more or less
> live with the variability, but the final tweaked image is never really
> up to the quality I get from an outstanding scan. But I don't understand
> how it could be VueScan that is doing this. Sometimes I can get the
> outstanding image simply by rescanning. It's like my SS4000 is flaking
> out on me intermittently.
>
> I have been shooting with Kodak Portra 400 UC lately because I just love
> the results when I get one of those outstanding scans, which is about
> 75% of the time. But the odd thing is, I have to set the Brightness on
> average to 0.5 when I get the outstanding scans and about 0.9 when I get
> the washed out scans. On Velvia and Provia 100F I average 1.0 on the
> Brightness setting and I never get these weirdly washed out scans. I
> don't know. Harware, software? I've always had "trouble" with negatives
> and the SS4000, but have learned to live with it, especially since I get
> such outstanding results 75% of the time with this Kodak UC film.
>
> Frank Paris
> frankparis@comcast.net

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