[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Kodachrome with VueScan

["alan" <list@alanharper.com>]

From the comp.periphs.scanners news group:

>Subject: Re: Advise for old Kodachrome ?
>From: "Ed Hamrick" <usenet@hamrick.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scanners
>Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2003 2:56 AM
>Message-ID: <bpso5a$j3u$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>
>
>"Jean Delmas" <jean@jeandelmas.com> wrote:
>> I am scanning old Kodachrome dias shooted in 1972 (Vuescan 7.6.64 +
>> Nikon 4000ED).
>> Results are surprising : much better with GENERIC type of slide film
>> than with KODAK KODACHROME (strong yellow colour cast).
>
>It will look even better if you set "Input|Media type" to "Image".
>
>Regards,
>Ed Hamrick
>
>

He said in a later posting that this was because of a bug in Vuescan, so
expect changes in later versions of vuescan.

I don't use any of the film types, ever, as they only seem to screw
things up. I only use "GENERIC COLOR SLIDE", but I have calibrated my scanner.

For old Kodachrome, I am doing one scan at automatic exposure to get what
VueScan thinks is the correct exposure, and then (by hand) doing scans at
50%, 100%, 200%, and 400% of the "correct" exposure, and combining the
resulting images in Photoshop. I find that Kodachrome records a larger
latitude than my scanner can recover in one pass.

A

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Trevor Staats at Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:22:41 +1100 said:

>Hi all,
>Just wondering if anyone can offer advice on scanning Kodachrome slides with
>VueScan using a Nikon LS-40.  I am using the Kodachrome film type in
>VueScan, but the results are usually quite dark and the saturation is poor.
>
>The scans need a fair bit of work to adjust brightness, contrast, colour
>balance and saturation after scanning.  There also seems to be a bleeding
>effect where white/black areas adjoin each other on the picture.
>
>I've tried multi-pass and long exposure pas but the differences are minor.
>Are there any other settings I could try to try and improve the scan
>quality?
>
>Thanks,
>Trevor Staats
>
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