Re: Basic question

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try out Vuescan at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

It should give you better results from the scan.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Munro" <timmunro@bigpond.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Basic question


| Hi,
| I've lurked here before but am likely to be a regular now as I have
| purchased some equipment to get my digital printing up and running. I bought
| a CanoScan FS4000US and an Epson 1290 photo printer. I am a professional
| photographer and part of my work is as a motorsport trackside photographer
| at Sydney's Eastern Creek circuit, among others. I sell a reasonable
| quantity of 8 x 10 and 12 x 16 prints of people on the circuit with their
| bikes or cars so the payback on this equipment looks good. But...........
| 
| I've been playing around with this gear for a couple of weeks now and my
| major problem is in the colour management. I have arranged to have the
| monitor/printer profiled in the near future but my biggest problem seems to
| be the colours that the scanner interprets from the negative/positive. I
| tried to scan a bushfire scene which came out as bluey/grey flames, then a
| sunset which the scanner turned to blue sky - both from negatives. I spoke
| to Canon who showed me how to change the various colour channels in the
| scanner software to improve this. Over the last few days I have tried to
| fill a few orders for trackside prints where I was getting very reddish
| tracks, a totally wrong shade of blue, and an orange/red bike which is
| actually a blood red colour. I was trying to correct this when a thought
| occurred to me - why am I having to do this ?  I thought the scanner would
| pull the accurate original colour information from the negative and I could
| then adjust if I wanted to - not fight to find the right starting point.
| 
| I would be very grateful if someone to put me straight on this before I
| waste too much more time, not to mention paper and ink. Have I got a poorly
| calibrated or faulty scanner ? or is this the way it is ?
| 
| Thanks, Tim
| www.timmunro.com.au
| 
| 
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