I have a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 slide scanner, and have been having lots of trouble scanning a Kodak Gold 200 negative. Most of the scanning I've done previously has been with Kodak Elite Chrome 200 slides and has mostly worked fine. Polaroid does have a profile specifically for Kodak Gold 200 negatives. Nevertheless, when I scan the negative, the scan invariably comes out very dark, and the colors are oversaturated. I have tried scanning with other more generic profiles as well, but it doesn't help much I can fix the darkness and color balance problems in Photoshop so that the image looks fine on screen. However, when I print the image, it shows a sort of noise or grain. Usually, my prints, made with an Epson 1270 photoprinter are virtually indistinguishable from conventionally made photographs. However, the noise or grain in this image makes it look like a second rate ink jet printout. Could this be CCD noise made evident by brightening an image that was originally very dark? Can anybody suggest how I can improve the quality of my scans of this image? I don't want to give up on getting a good scan of it, because it has sentimental value. It is a photo of a friend who died recently, and I wanted to send the print to her mother.
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