I recently obtained the Nikon LS5000 scanner and began to try to obtain a
profile for Kodachrome scans. The Nikon Scan 4.0 software has 4 profiles,
one specifically for Kodachrome. Probably to no surprise to anyone on this
list, it doesn't work very well. Reds and greens are dull, scenes with
Hi Ed--
I scan Kodachrome with a Nikon 4000, and am running NIkonScan 3.x on
MacOS X, so my experiences may or not help you, but here goes:
(1) I found that I get greater dynamic range and more accurate color
by scanning with Nikon color management turned off, generating a raw
scan, opening it
Ed,
The profile generated by Vuescan was a icc extension. As a raw rookie, I'm
ICC stands for Internation Color Consortium, ICM doesn't stand for
anything, the M is just for module I guess, without any
correlation to the IC. Files with these extensions are both ICC
profiles. I'd prefer .icc as
I believe that ICM does refer to the the color management module that the
operating system uses for its system level color management, which in the
case of Windows systems, I believe, is the Kodak module that uses the Kodak
color management engine as opposed to Mac systems which use Colorsync.
Thanks for the comments, Bill. Your experiences seem to be identical to mine.
I'm a little dismayed that Nikon and others are inventing their own
proprietary color
management systems. Kind of defeats the original purpose of the ICC, as I
understand it.
Ed
Ed,
Surely you can turn the color management off in NikonScan, scan your slide
or neg into PS, and then assign whatever custom profile you like to the scan
and convert that to your working space?
With NkScan 3, I regularly did this to get my scan in working spaces other
than those selectable in
Bob,
I have thousands of slides to scan, archive, and create slideshows.
Whatever I do has to be as automatic as possible. Vuescan is working
extremely well. After a little tweaking this morning, even skin tones are
dead on. If the the profiles could be converted in Photoshop in a batch
mode, that
Ed Lusby wrote:
Whatever I do has to be as automatic as possible. Vuescan is working
extremely well.
In case you didn't know... You can speed up VS appreciably by avoiding the
need for the scanner to make a second pass after the preview scan. Set
preview to the target resolution (eg 4000ppi),
