[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides

["Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>]

on 11/19/04 4:03 PM, Al Bond at al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that
> most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed.  I have been trying to scan in
> and recover some of the shots but with limited success.
>
> Although the slides are very "thin", there is still some detail in the
> highlights,
> albeit very compressed.  I have used Vuescan to make sure none of the detail
> is lost and then tried using curves in Photoshop to uncompress the highlights
> and spread them back into the midtones.  However, I still can't get a natural
> looking result.
>
> Has anyone got any tips or suggestions on anything else I can try?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Al Bond
>
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It's too late for this remedy, but the development of the films may have
been able to be adjusted to compensate to a large extent...but I don't know
if that works for slide film.  It's academic now; the detail is lost.

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