Re: Basic question

["Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@xxxxxxx>]

Tim's equipment isn't familiar to me. And I'm not a professional 
photographer. But I've been having very good luck with all three 
speeds (100, 400, 800) of Kodak's Supra film, which I've heard is 
scanner friendly, both in my Polaroid SprintScan 4000 with 
LaserSoft's Silverfast 5.5 software and on Kodak PhotoCDs. Little, 
often no, correction seems necessary in Photoshop. But I'm not sure 
how well the 800 Supra would print at 12 x 16; I think that might be 
a stretch.

Sam


>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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