One IT8 target manufacturer for all film types
One IT8 target manufacturer for all film types
- Subject: One IT8 target manufacturer for all film types
- From: Dan Caldwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:16:52 -0800
In response to the discussion that grew out the "where to buy IT8" thread.
It is always best if you can build a profile for the film type you
are scanning. This is why Agfa targets are so popular in Europe and
Kodak here. To go one step further it is always best to scan with a
reference file that you measured instead of the batch file from the
manufacturer.
That being said, it is not really a possibility to do so as there is
no target for all the film types and most of us have no way of
measuring a transmissive target. Fuji blues for example are enough
different then Kodak that it may ("MAY") pay to invest in a Fuji
target if you scan mostly Fuji film.
In my graphic arts experience (10 years running traditional high-end
scanners) I had a set-up for each film type scanned. This same
approach can be taken with good success using color management. A
profile can be optimized for a film type other then the one it was
built from with a set of edits. If you have a profile editing
application these can be saved into the source profile and used again
with out the need to edit. If not save the edits as an action in
Photoshop to be applied when that film type is scanned.
Rgs,
Dan
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