Thanks Lauri, but would it be hardware reason the output would be wrong completely with either Nikon CMS On or Off. In my case, switching the Nikon CMS off results in near-to-be color balanced scans featured by slight green tint (barely visible sometimes), which is nice considering the output wasn't color processed in software yet. Also, playing with profiling last weekend I incidentally tried LS2000/LS30 profile which is installed automatically into the OS upon Nikon Software installation besides of profiles for LS4000/LS40 and LS8000. I didn't pay attention on these until last Friday, and then being tired from all this profiling struggle I tried the LS2000/LS30 profile and that amazed me. This one worked much better then either LS4000/LS40, LS8000 or Nikon CMS being ON ! The problem is as follows as for my understanding: the unprocessed data out of the scanner delivers slightly greenish scans. The Nikon CMS tries to compensate for it adding substantial amount of pinkish tint which is way too much ending with heavy pink tinted image. So do the LS4000/LS40 and LS8000 profiles supplied with the Nikon driver. On the other hand, the LS2000/LS30 profile adds very delicate pink/orage tint in the amount which is just enough to compensate that green cast the hardware output is featured by. That seems to work quite well for me, so I worked out my procedure: scanning into Photoshop with Nikon CMS off on the permanent manner, and then performing Assign profile for LS2000/LS30. After that the results obtained seems to be as 99 % neutral as would be expected initially and are starting point for ordinary further manual processing of necessary.
Regards, Alex Z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Scanner calibration Just speculation; but the pinkish cast could be possibly dou to a change in the power current used to run the scanner; do you suffer any recent and unusual fluxes in your electric power such as brownouts? It also may be cuased by a bad or deteriorating light source (e.g., a bad or deteriorating LED or fluorescent tube in the scanner which is giving off a slightly different color or color temperature). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Zabrovsky Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Scanner calibration Yes, I also used to work with Adobe 98 in both Nikon 3.1.2 and Photoshop delivering good, well balanced results, until recently the scanner began to deliver pinkish scans with which I'm struggling till now... Regards, Alex Z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanner calibration Alex writes: > If so, it seems I'll have to turn the Nikon > CMS off permanently. I've always had it turned off in Nikon Scan 2.x, as it just messes up too many things. It seems to work okay in Nikon Scan 3.1.2; I have the color space set to Adobe 1998 (the same space I use in Photoshop). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body