Re: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 and new negative proile scheme

[Raphael Bustin]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Tony Sleep wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:20:40 -0400  Dave King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> 
> >  If the film
> > terms for the SS4000 didn't give you this, either the terms weren't
> > accurate, the scanner wasn't calibrated well, or your system's CM
> > wasn't set up correctly.
> 
> This would be true of slide, but there's inescapabaly much more 
> variability with colour neg. due to the nature of the film. And although 
> I've not used a Leafscan, I bet what it got from colour neg was only 
> approximate too.


I've generally found those film-type "profiles" 
(not the ICC kind, but the kind you find in some 
film-scanner-drivers) to be useful, at best, 
as starting points.  Interesting that NikonScan 
(3.1, at least) doesn't have them at all, yet 
does a pretty good job at inverting negatives 
and coming up with useful, believable images 
with different types of negative film.


rafe b.