Re: Making scans of color negatives [was: Is there a profile with
Re: Making scans of color negatives [was: Is there a profile with
- Subject: Re: Making scans of color negatives [was: Is there a profile with
- From: Chris Protopapas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:15:06 -0400
Marco Ugolini wrote:
>I agree that starting off by scanning a color negative as positive (and
always in 16 bits!) is a good way to do it. I have done it that way
myself, with more-than-decent results.
>But one thing is left untouched in Lyons' otherwise good tutorial: which
RGB color space (ICC profile) should one assign to the scan?
>That is not a trivial question, since it affects both the tonal
distribution and the color gamut of the resulting image.
>It's a step for which I myself have not yet found a completely
satisfactory formula. I would be curious to see how others tackle this
specific challenge (the one of determining which RGB profile to assign to
the positive scan of a color negative).<
The answer is simple. Assign your positive (transparency) profile and
convert to Adobe1998 (or whatever your taste is).
After all, you're just as concerned about reproducing accurate color in this
workflow as in the positive workflow, it's just that you will take it one
step further and invert it.
In my professional opinion, Silverfast is the way to go, provided your
scanner is supported. My Nikon LS9000 is, so I use that for scanning color
negatives. Lucky owners of a Tango or Hell s3400 can use it as well, but my
Hell s3900 is not supported, so I use the positive method when I need very
high resolutions.
Chris Protopapas
FUEL DIGITAL
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