James, where are your full sized scans? As for colors, on my bulk scan, I
just use NikonScan and the colors look OK to me. On scan for print, I use
VS with ICC profiles. For details, I posted this a couple weeks ago:
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>Here's a crop of the Redhead goth chick:
>http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/goth-cropped.jpg
>
>
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I don't think you can get much more details out of that from any scanner.
At 04:28 PM 6/8/2004, James Royall wrote:
>Thanks for the kind offer Chris. I think though, I may have come up
>with an easier way - I have a target slide that I have scanned at
>4000dpi to get as much detail as possible. I have put up a couple of
>images of the slide as it is scanned by Vuescan. Neither one has any
>processing apart from being turned into jpgs.
>
>The full frame image shows all the colour and b/w gradations which look
>pretty good to me. The woman's face, however is illustrative of what
>I'm finding with my scans; it's dull and lifeless and needs a fair bit
>of adjustment to get to the natural skin tone I see on the slide, and I
>can't always get close to the slide.. Maybe this is normal and I just
>need to calibrate and profile, using one of the links David's sent me?
>
>The other question I've been asking myself is whether the scan should
>be sharper. The detail image shows actual pixels from the scan. Does
>this look about right for 4000dpi, or should it be sharper? Obviously
>some detail is lost in the jpg, but it does look virtually
>indistinguishable from the original tif.
>
>I really would appreciate any views on this, as it's been getting to me
>for some time.
>
>James
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