Cezanne5500 Calibration

[Peter De Smidt]

You might try making the selection area a little bigger than normal, making sure to include a bit of the sprocket holes (if it's 35mm). This added really light area might get you better shadow separation. Another idea would be to add an opaque mask around the negative and to include some of that. These two elements should be lighter and darker respectively than anything in the frame. That way, if the software automatically clips a little of both ends of the scale, you might get a less contrasty scan.

[hbjornson]

Peter - I wanted to thank you for all the suggestions you have come up with.
I am afraid I have still not really solved the problem and I hope that doing the calibration in the super maintainer may be the answer, but I have to wait for a target to ship to me before I can try this avenue.
I wish others in this forum had experience with this problem!
Thanks again,
Howard

[Peter De Smidt]

Hi Howard,

Howard,

What target are you going to use? Hopefully, the reference file that comes with your target will be readable by the Color Genius software.

I must admit that I'm a little murky as to exactly how the Cezanne handles color. In the first place, there's the white calibration strip, but there's also the Cezanne standard profile, which I think is used in the conversion from the scanned data to the output file. And these seem to be distinct from an icc profile that characterizes the scanner's output for various types of film. All-in-all Screen could do a much better job explaining all of this in their manual.

-Peter

[jetcode]

All-in-all Screen could do a much better job explaining all of this in their manual.

no kidding - "sparse" is a word that comes to mind, the manual is very "sparse"

[Peter De Smidt]

With regards to calibration, there's actually a good step-by-step in printed "hardware setup" manual. I had been looking in the PDF user manual, which is generally better. I'll let the scanner warm up, and then I try calibrating it would a Wolf Faust IT8 target.

[Peter De Smidt]

Ok, I got as far as specifying the "lab calibration file". Apparently, the files from Faust are not in the right format for the Screen software, and unfortunately it doesn't tell me what format it's supposed to be in. I'll try emailing Screen.

[hbjornson]

I hope my wolf faust target and and reference file work. It was recommended by Screen usa tech mike asta and has not arrived as of yet.
I had a target that came with the used scanner and the reference file would not upload, so I could not perform the calibration.
Now I am worried that this will happen with the new file as well.
Hoping not to become frustrated.....
Howard

[Peter De Smidt]

Hi Howard,

I've emailed Screen Japan about the problem but haven't heard anything back. I'll certainly let you know if I do.

[hbjornson]

Well, it seems that one can not use the maintainer or super maintainer without having a 3rd party ICC profiler as the file that is supplied with the target from Wolf Faust is a Word document!
Here is a quote from Wolf

"But following older posting confirms my current knowledge (ie. no
profiler shipped with Screen - you need to use a 3rd party ICC
profiler... I recommend lprof because of it's high quality profiles):
The CD shipped with the target is a hybrid CD with Mac HFS and ISO.
So the CD does define creator and file type for the Mac. The
reference file is specified as MS Word document and not text file
mainly because the very popular Monaco Profiler requires it and
doesn't accept reference files specified as text file. If the
profiler doesn't even allow you to select the reference file, than
try changing the file type to TEXT and creator to ttxt ."

Does anyone know anything about this, perhaps Ted Harris???
I would think this would have been mentioned in the cezanne owner's manual.
What profiler do people use?
Thanks,
Howard

[hbjornson]

Peter - Excuse my total ignorance, but do you mean that you can use IPhoto, that comes on every mac as a icc profiler? Can you input the Word file that came with your wolf faust target into Iphoto and then use it to calibrate with super maintainer?
Wolf faust recommends lprof or Monaco Profiler for icc profiles.
I wish I could figure this out.
Howard