The high color rendering index fluorescence tube is now very common,
try to buy one between 4500-5500K, I remember my table lamp is having
color temp. of 4500K and the color is much better than the old
fluorescence tube which has heavy green cast. The color temp of your
monitor has to set to 5000K too if you need a better match, it is a
common color temp for professional works.
Usually a mid-end flatbed (around $200) has quite good color accuracy
in reproducing prints, what usually need to adjust is master level
(not individual color). The accuracy of print is another issue, they
are usually not as you wish. Both old UMAX 1200S and my new Microtek
6700 have very good color accuracy.
C.H.Ling
Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hi folk,
>
> I wonder if any of you have faced and dealt with this problem.
>
> When I scan images, they are always from prints, on a flat-bed scanner.
>
> So I have no idea if the print-maker has the colour right. The scanning
> software and the post-scanning imaging software then throw a few wobblies
> into the image-making process. Not least of these is during the conversion
> from whatever patented format the program uses, to jpeg.
>
> Another source of error arises in the colour temperature of the light I use
> when comparing the print with the on-screen image. Unless I have access to
> good daylight from a window to the side, I have only an incandescent bulb
> which emits light that is obviously yellow.
>
> All of these things make it difficult to adjust the light level, the contrast
> and
> the colours on the digital image so that it represents the reality at the
> time of
> exposure.
>
> What do you use for a white-light source?
>
> Brian
>
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