Re: Characterizing a scanner
Re: Characterizing a scanner
- Subject: Re: Characterizing a scanner
- From: Dan Husted <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:54:38 -0500
I have MonacoPROOF and am trying to characterize a minolta dimage scan multi
pro
under OSX with both Vuescan and the minolta software. I currently only have
a
35mm Kodachrome IT8.7 slide to do this (despite the fact that we will be
scanning more Fuji Velvia/Provia than anything else).
It has been my experience to use a target made on the same film stock for
the type/family of film of your original.
Kodachrome is a completely different animal than the E6 type
films...Kodachrome is really a type of b/w film
where the color is added during the development stage; E6 films have the
color embedded and the developers
strips away to reveal them.
ONLY use a Kodachrome target for KR originals and get a Fuji target for your
Velvia/Provia scans. A viable option for the
Fuji target is:
http://www.targets.coloraid.de/
Monaco rejects the scans I have made so far, and those are RAW 16bit scans,
converted to 8bit and not color corrected. Monaco says there is a problem
with
the shadow detail, obviously the raw scans are dark and I guess that is part
of
the problem.
I am not familiar with MonacoPROOF...Try scanning in 8bit rather than
16bit...Are you sure you are using the correct data file for that particular
Kodachrome target? Does MonacoPROOF support the Kodak Kodachrome target? Are
you sure that there is no color management on when scanning, or curves,
levels, sharpening, etc activated?
I have always read that you want to characterize with as little settings as
possible, hence a RAW scan. Is this incorrect? What is the correct
procedure?
There should be no color management settings activated in your scanner
software (every thing off...btw a raw scan will look inherently dark if you
open it in Photoshop.
BTW, I would like to do just RAW 16bit, native res scans and edit in PS as
my
workflow.
This is preferred, but when building a profile scan as an 8bit file.
Regards,
Dan
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