[filmscanners] RE: Best 35mm slide film?

["" <Jawed@cupidity.force9.co.uk>]

Try scanning your "clipped red" slides using the Nikon Scan software, with
auto exposure turned off.

Also, to be fair, the older consumer film scanners seem marginally able to
cope with the dark bits of Velvia and Kodachrome.

Jawed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of
> Julian Vrieslander

>
> I also use a Nikon 4000ED.  When scanning Velvia (50 and
> 100F), I sometimes
> have a problem with very saturated reds.  The reds are
> apparently clipping
> (running out of gamut) somewhere in the scan process, and I
> get areas of
> featureless flat color.  I profiled my scanner (with VueScan and Wolf
> Faust's IT8 targets), and that reduced the amount of post-scan color
> adjustments that I need to do in Photoshop.  But it did not
> eliminate the
> problem with clipped reds.
>


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