Rick Womer wrote: >Very nice! Is the color as it was on the slides? > >I have about 20k slides and wonder how much the color will have shifted >when I finally have time to scan some of them.
The color seems to have shifted very little, if at all. Mind you, the two slides that made up that image are only from 2001, which isn't very old in the grand scheme of things. Some of my slides from the 1990's have some obvious color fading, but nothing that's too difficult to correct. I suspect that E6 slides loose some detail and resolution with age; the dye clouds that make up the grain structure seem to soften and merge with age. At least that's the impression I get. My slide scanner is a Minolta Scan Dual IV with a resolution of 3200dpi, which seems to be greater than the resolution of almost all the slides I've scanned so far. (It yields around a 13 megapixel file.) The biggest problem I've encountered is fungus. There's a particular kind of fungus that enjoys film emulsion and a few of my slides, despite being kept in PrintFile sleeves and stored in dry environments, have been infected. It's a bugger to clean up in Photoshop. I'm very glad I didn't wait any longer to start scanning in my old stuff. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
