Message-Id: <mailto:199607291555.KAA16252@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:51:29 -0800 From: John Blunden <mailto:blunden2@LLNL.GOV> Subject: Re: color negatives To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
We are in the process of purchasing a Agfa Horizon Ultra scanner. I don't expect to use it for negatives, since we are also getting a Kodak 3570 film scanner for that purpose, but neg scanning seems to be a bit of a black art at this timeI suspect that some of the ICC color management systems could fix this problem by profiling the scanners & media. Has anyone used color management either for this specific problem or for calibrating the scanner/monitor/output device package? We are going to try Color Synergy to profile our devices & will post the results when we get our system up.
John
>I use an Agfa Horizon+ flatbed scanner, capable of 2400dpi scans,
>I scan B&W glass and film negs, an colour transparencies of all
>formats.
>But colour negs-....
>I hate to tell you this, colur neg scanning is only for the experts..
>Even the Agfa rep says "leave it alone"
>They get colour prints made and scan them.(True!!)
>Coluor neg film base varies from film to film and brand to brand. So
>each type of film will produce a varying degree of orange cast.
>unless you are prepared to put many, many hours into this, outsource
>your scans or use transparency film.
>Kodak PIW workstations for CD-Rom PCD files may be of help.
John Blunden mailto:blunden2@llnl.gov Phone (510) 422-4989 Fax (510) 422-6944