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From: "David Mann"
Subject: Re: WTB: Minolta Dimage IV Scanner
Also a colour chart is of little use to me because I tend to be quite
frugal with film. I'd end up having to do charts on every 2nd or 3rd
exposure due to the different lighting.
Back when we got enough film through the labs to be bothered........
We used to balance our film channels with a "standard" negative set.
I suspect that something similar could be applied to your film scanning,
where you take a standard negative (shoot a gray card and some colour
swatches), then adjust the curves until it looks right and save that
adjusted colour balance as that film's profile.
I expect it would be a pretty close starting point.
A little secret from the processing industry:
It's all done by eye.
This rather anal retentive insistence on playng a numbers game on your
pictures is pretty much a waste of time. Calibrate your system so that what
you see really is what comes off the printer, and then make the picture look
right on the screen.
Trust your eyes, they are a far better tool than any colour picker in
Photoshop at determining if the image is right or wrong.
William Robb
