Sebastien Roy wrote:
> I just got a back of 50 slides scanned by Kodak PhotoCD.
> The results are quite bad. It seems the scanner can't
> reproduce the contrast range of the slides. So it arbitrarily
> destroys dark and light areas of the pictures.
The Kodak scaner has a to limited density range for slides.
> Is this a know problem? And how do I fix it, without requiring
> a skilled (and expensive) technician to do everything by hand?
Yes, no fix posible, what´s lost is lost.
> I'm starting to believe that automated scanning is almost as bad as
> automated printing. I hope I'm wrong...
It´s worse, they even do not use the full range of shades the file
format supports. Histograms of Photo CD scans show, that the extrem
hilights and shadows are missing.
Richard
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