I just scanned some kodachromes on my old leafscan45. Since I never thought there should be a specific kodachrome issue, I thought I would take a look once again at some previous scans and the trannies
there seems to be absolutely no kodachrome issue. My experience with this scanner is that what the eye sees on the lightbox is what the scanner sees. I wonder whether there infra red or UV issues that people are experiencing. If anything, the kodachromes contain fewer abberant over saturated grain particles in the deep shadows and thus tend to look pretty natural. as far as shadow detail is concerned - I can scan a processed unexposed piece of transparency film and see clearly through the dmax with out ajusting the exposure time above normal (which can be extended to 2+ stops over normal). on an average wide range transparency on a 16 bit 'raw' unprofiled scan the the average range of the histogram is about 1/3 of the width of the 16 bit range. I have never ever scanned anything which came even close to filling the entire range. that is not to say that it produces the ultimate in quality but I think we have passed a threshold beyond which 99.5% of the time in a commercial repro environment, the quality is acceptable. good drum scans can give crisper grain detail and scan some film sizes to much higher rez productivity is definitely not the name of the game with this scanner which is probably why it was discontinued philip =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
