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24-FEB-2014 jCross

February 23, 2014

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I am learning all the time. Sometimes I surprise myself at how stupid I could have been just a few months before. As you all know I am working on this giant film scanning project. I am using a Nikon CoolScan 9000 scanner and VueScan software. The software is a little quirky and the documentation is pretty hard to deal with sometimes. But I have to say, that it works pretty darn well once you start to get the hint. And here is the hint. Make sure you have selected the right correction for the film base. The color of the film base changes with version of the film. I have to tell you that it is pretty obvious that the base color is different in some cases.

So here is where I went brain dead. I wasn't being careful with the film base correction. If not brain dead, certainly a short circuit. I was telling myself to just take what I get and make corrections later. WRONG! The thing I wasn't doing was getting the film base selection correct. So today I decided to try an experiment. One of the things in the back of my mind was that maybe the film base changed color with time. VueScan has a method of doing a manual correction for the base color.

So here is the result from left to right: no base color correction, automatic base color correction and manual base color correction. Bottom line - for this particular film and age, automatic base color correction works just fine. Although the color isn't perfect, just a few tweaks makes it pretty darn good.

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jCross24-Feb-2014 15:04
Actually, it isn't really automatic. You tell it what film base you are using and it makes the correction based on that.
John Cooper24-Feb-2014 14:21
Never thought I would hear you recommend an automatic setting on camera equipment John.