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BTW, have you tried getting a 16bit linear scan using the Epson's scan driver that produces tiffs ColorNeg does well with?

I'ld like to not have to purchase an additional piece of software like...

Thanks, Dalton.

I'll check it out and see how it works when I get some time.

Dalton,

Thanks for the kind remarks.

I'ld like to add that if you do apply my workflow, it might not give consistant results scene to scene. Your cattail image has specific memory colors that...

Hi Dalton,

I've posted the edited version to your original cattail shot. Since you don't like saturation, I didn't apply it. I still assigned JoRGB, converted back to sRGB and did a levels neutral...

Robert,

Thanks for posting the Dalton Rooney link to the ColorNeg comparison samples. I'ld plumb forgot about this thread since no one seemed to be able to post one sample comparison.

I'm...

Here's my attempt.

Wanted to reduce the overall magenta cast but enhance it in the sunset area. Also tried to neutralize the water and background fog.

First assigned AdobeRGB to the jpeg since...

So when you use the negative tweaked settings and call that a profile what profile gets assigned or embedded after the scan? Are these tweaked settings applied on top of a canned Silverfast profile?...

If you get tonal/color shifts when flattening which happens often to me in PS 7 especially with layers having different blending modes such as Overlay on top of a Color blend layer with a Hue/Sat...

If you have shifts in viewing angles it's more than likely you have an LCD with a panel type other than S-IPS, probably S-PVA from Samsung. Both can be calibrated successfully with the Samsung...

Colin,

You made sure you viewed that site in a noncolor managed browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer I hope.

I don't know what brand of LCD you have. Some have separate brightness and...

This site:

http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/evaluation/gamma_space/index.htm

needs to be viewed in a nonCM app to show the actual gamma of your display. It will also show how neutral along the...

Yeah,

Flip through each RGB channel in PS and note the slight off alignment shift from one another in each gray channel. I get this on my 35mm scans off my refurbed Epson 4870.

snaggs'...

Make sure your termination is in order on each end of the last device on the chain and at the host card or whatever is powering the SCSI chain.

I have SCSI Probe working just fine on my 2000 Pismo...

Neal,

Don't you lose dynamic range scanning from a print? From my understanding from reading quite a bit on this prints have a dmax of about 2.0 and film especially negs MUCH more.

Just for my...

Scott,

They are beefy scanners. I had the Agfa Arcus II and FotoLook's color management and canned media profiles for reflective was supurb. Didn't need to custom profile.

Unfortunately after...

Any reason for getting a used DuoScan instead of a more modern refurbed flatbed like an Epson?

Those posted samples, adrian, are better than any film or commercial print reproduction I've ever seen in any gallery I've visited lately. I've had an interest in that field for quite some time...

Try this. It's crude but sometimes it works with my minilab. Once you convert to your CMYK space that gives the purple blue, assign other CMYK spaces that make the blue look like the purple without...

I've got a local gallery owner in my small town in Texas attempting to reproduce his client's paintings using an amateur photographer with an Olympus Evolt and printing to canvas with an HP wide...

Geez, you ain't kiddin' this is a buggy program. I trashed the pref folder and nothing seemed to change. Upgraded to 6.4.4r6 and now the preview pane expands outside the bounds of my display desktop...

Thanks, Kirk.

I take it trashing the preferences dumps all established edits from the previous scan session.

Any installing tips going from SF-SE 6.4.4r2 to 6.4.4r6. I believe I'm on my second...

Another thing. In my searches on the web on this I came across this 2005 Luminous Landscape forum thread. The answer from Silverfast is near the bottom.
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See what you get assigning your monitor profile and/or sRGB.

I'm getting the same thing with my Epson 4870 scanning negatives in 48>24bit mode with SF-SE vs 6.4.4r2 and 6.4.4r6. I'm on a Mac OS...

Well I can tell you my experience with Silverfast and yes I'm using SE bundled with my Epson 4870 because I'm not about to download and troubleshoot a buggy app as this if I can't even get it to scan...

..."I find that if I do not embed the sRGB profile (any profile actually) when saving the image as a jpg, then it looks fine and matches the Photoshop image exactly."

Then it has to be a browser...

Are you viewing the Flickr website on one of those LCD's whose color gamut is very close to the AdobeRGB space? If so, your sRGB images may look somewhat oversaturated.

Other than that if you...

I was using the prints as a color temp reference for outdoor light not actual color for color matching. Getting reasonably accurate color temp of midday sun lit subjects editing negatives can be...

I might have an idea what's going on after retracing my search steps over at the Silverfast forum yesterday. There's a lot to digest over there because of the many versions and upgrades you have to...

Thanks, Kirk.

I don't think I want to turn it off whatever it is. It's giving me some real good scans with very little work required to get a scene correct response. All I have to do is invert...

With Silverfast SE HDR 48bit RAW neg output what is SF referencing to neutralize the orange mask since the selected Negafix profiles aren't applied in this mode with this version of SF. Was wondering...

I'm not sure about Silverfast's CM implementation and how it arrives at its HDR48bit RAW capture of color negatives since you can't create a profile for them anyway. I'm a bit puzzled why SF's CM...

I get the same results as jhogan using the version of Silverfast SE that shipped with my refurbed 2004 model Epson 4870 for Mac OS 9.2.2.

So this confirms normal behavior at least in my case...

That's good to know, Keith. I've had my Epson 1270 in the closet for at least 5 years and have been wondering what to expect.

I've been using my local minilab for my prints for this little but...

Bruce,

From what I've researched on the web on scanners they all have there plus's and minus's. Either one would work for you as well as the others mentioned. Your workflow habits should determine...

I haven't scanned prints that large. I'm assuming then that these larger prints have been optically enlarged from a small negative. Or are these contact prints off 11x14 negatives? Something has to...

Depending on how the prints you're scanning were generated, size wouldn't matter anyway. You'ld have to examine your prints under a loupe and see what you're scanner is going to pick up which can...

Any used or refurbed Epson, Microtek or Canon made in the last two years would suffice. I got my Epson 4870 refurb for $200 at the Epson store. Scans 35mm negs pretty good but prints are even better...

I thought by now everyone would've bookmarked this page the many times I've posted this link...

http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/REPAIR/F_monfaq.html

It's been a big help for me on my 1998...

I'm still looking for a good "Lps sound better than CDs" discussion. A google search indicates the late '90's was its hayday and now its fizzled still without a believable, definitive conclusion.

You should be getting excellent scans off your 4990 Epson. However I know negatives can be a challenge on any scanner because of how the scanner software deals with orange mask and image inversion.
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