Message-Id: <mailto:199607251507.KAA16420@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:06:38 -0500 From: Alan Newman <mailto:anewman@ARTIC.EDU> Subject: Re: color negatives To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>Greetings again,
>
>
>>>I've been told that NO scanner can successfully scan color negatives. Does
>>>anyone have any experience refuting this claim?
>
>Several people have posted that some scanners can, indeed, scan color
>negatives. Our AGFA with its transparancy adaptor, and our new HP Scanjet 4C
>are SUPPOSED to be able to do this, but in fact they do not. The AGFA images
>come out bluish, and it apparently has something to do with the orangish
>color of the emulsion on color negs.
>
>What I am really trying to find out if anyone has SEEN images scanned from
>color negs, and if so, what kind of scanner was used.
>
>Thanks.
>Victoria Yturralde
>Photographic Archivist
>Calif. Dept. of Parks & Recreation
All of the Nikon scanners do a good job of scanning color negatives and reversing the polarity. Agfa makes software called Fototune that you can use to calibrate your color negs.
Thanks, Alan
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