[filmscanners] Re: Colour management on Negatives

["Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@vom.com>]

I think the film manufacturers provide what Kodak at least calls
"film terms", information some scanners can use to get the colors
right, or at least closer, for those films. This is, I assume, what's
behind Lasersoft's Silverfast, for example, letting you choose the
film before the scan. It hasn't always done that, and it seemed to me
to make an appreciable difference when that feature was added (in the
5 or 5.5 upgrade?). But, reading between Eddie's lines, I guess
Silverfast is not bundled with the Minolta 5400?

Sam


>A friend has a 7 x 5 print of a negative and a further enlargement print
>from the negative at 10 x 7. It is from Fuji Superia 200 negative film. Both
>from the same major Kodak lab in Glasgow, Scotland.
>
>The smaller picture has a blue cast to it but a coax lead coming down the
>wall on both pictures looks black and the plants in front of the house are
>both a mixture of greens and yellows.
>
>I scaned the said negative on a Minolta 5400 with no ICE on.
>
>The plants are all green ( virtually no yellow)and the coax cable coming
>down the wall has a distinct purple tinge to it.
>
>Therefore how do I get the correct colour scanning negative film ot is it
>very much hit and miss.
>
>I believe it is only possible to get an IT 8.7/1 transparency test image to
>calibrate a film scanner and that there is no readily avaialble 35mm
>standard negative test image that can be used to calibrate a film scanner.
>
>Eddie

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