>Probably only the latest (last?) generation of scanners has enough colour >depth capability to cope >with the high saturation emulsions such as >Velvia.
I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED, several years old (not the latest) that has no problem coping with Velvia, the only film I shot for the last several years. Kenneth Waller http://tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A few more images.... > > From: Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/09/12 Wed AM 12:24:34 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: A few more images.... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So is your scanner calibrated to a reference Velvia film target such > as the one below? > > http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ > > http://www.computer-darkroom.com/it8cal/it8_page_3.htm > > > Anyway, the light was in most of the images pretty weird! A couple of > > them > > are landscapes lit by a blood red sun. It is supposed to have a red hue. > > Well there's saturated and saturated to the point that all subtle > detail is lost, I suspect that some of your images fall into the later > category. If that's your aim more power to you, they are a great set > of images regardless but I just think that some of your presentation > techniques are letting them down. Using better sharpening techniques > is another area where you really could substantially improve their > appearance. > > > REPLY: > > I admit I am a novice when it comes to photoshop. I hate it! > Anyway, many of the original slides look more vobrant and saturated than > the > images posted at Photo.net. > > Pål Probably only the latest (last?) generation of scanners has enough colour depth capability to cope with the high saturation emulsions such as Velvia. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
