On 11/19/2012 9:50 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Learning to use Vuescan.
Oh good. Listening to you talk about using SF and watching the Kodachrome
results has been painful. It must work for
some people, but so far, it's not been doing justice to your KR slides. I
thought VueScan had a fairly steep learning
curve, but it may seem like child's play after SF. ;-)
For KR, I would first just use the Kodachrome setting on the Color Tab. You can
go further, and scan your target slide
to make an ICC profile. That will make good looking images, but lose the
special KR characteristics.
>> Does anybody use the infrared channel to remove
>> dust and scratches?
Ben Franklin said beer is proof that God wants us to be happy. IR dust removal
may be the equivalent for film
photographers. Ed claims that it now works quite well for Kodachrome, too. A
few years ago, I found it worked well in
light areas like skies, but could do odd things in dark areas. I understand
it's improved now.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Temp/Page%20from%2056%20The%20VueScan%20Bible/Page%20from%2056%20The%20VueScan%20Bible.pdf>
>> I've scanned several slides with it, without it, and
>> using light, medium and heavy levels. It seems to work fine on the lightest
>> level.
> Tina, I definitely use it. Yes, the light settings seem to be best for
> me. The algorithm has changed a bit through the years and keeps
> getting better. For most clean slides, medium works better, but if
> you've got a big scratch or some serious grungies on a slide, the IR
> cleaning in Vuescan tends to get a bit nasty with its fix.
Ah, now it makes sense. I've found Medium to work best for almost all film. but
I'm using a diffuse light scanner,
slides are mostly pretty clean, undamaged and I blow excess dust away before
scanning.
> ...
>
> Nice picture, BTW. The coloring and contrast is definitely more
> pleasing. The images were taking on a chromed look to them. Chromed as
> in shiny metallic look, not Fujichrome or Kodachrome.
Tina has shown some images with very nice color, contrast, etc. from various
films other than KR. The trouble has all
been in KR.
V. S. Moose
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