Re: Scanning Color Negative Film -- Nikon Coolscan, Mac


"Richard Karash" <Richard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:300720081310086097%Richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, I'm going back to some older images.

Scanning color negative film, mostly Vericolor VPS from 80's with Nikon
Super Coolscan V. Software is Nikon Scan 4 and VueScan (current ver).

Nikon Scan seems to do a fine job of scanning slides. The images are
"right" the first time. But, I cannot figure out how to control the
options in Nikon Scan, other than the basic positive vs. negative. The
scans of color negative film are awful.

Haven't used it in a while, but aren't there a few sliders along the side of the main window that open to subsets of controls? I had good luck with the Coolscan I had, and I do remember that there were a ton of controls and I was usually able to get a nice scan, with a very few exceptions.


VueScan does better, but still involves multiple steps. Can anyone
help me do it more simply than this:
- Scan the negative in VueScan. After manipulating the sliders, the
best I can get is a modest contrast image with a severe cyan color
cast. But, it's a 14 bit image, so there's hope.
- Save as TIFF. VueScan gives it a color profile of AppleRGB. I want
to open this file in Adobe Camera Raw, but I cannot. I assume it's the
color profile.
- So, I open the TIFF in Photoshop, convert to profile sRGB and resave
as TIFF.
- Then, open same file in Camera Raw (Bridge... select photo... Open
in Camera Raw).
- Here I can correct the color (grey eyedropper if there's a neutral
tone). This requires radical use of the sliders, but I get a good
image:

Temp +25
Tint +50
Recovery 50
Blacks 20
Brightness +20
Contrast +50 to +100

(The original VueScan TIFF is low contrast and cyan color-cast)

- Now, with the file open in Photoshop and roughly on the right mark,
I can work with it.

In VueScan, I have
- archive quality
- Digital ICE, the middle setting, not heavy
- Color Negative film... Vericolor...

Anyone have suggestions for getting good, reasonable color scans of
color negative film the first time??

Otherwise, I'm tempted to go to the mini-lab and let them scan to CD
with their Fuji Frontier.

TIA.

-=- Rick

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Richard Karash <Richard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Richard "at" Karash "dot" com

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