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Ken
My trouble deals with color shifts when scanning some older (1970's -
1990's) Ektachrome slides. I know some people have trouble with
Kodachrome slides but those work real well for us and we do not have
any of these problems. When we have post processing turned on and use
ROC, we can get severe color shifting. Below is a link to an example
(compressed) which shows an extreme magenta color shift:
http://www.usadiscountgenerators.com/ScannerProblem.html
If I keep rescanning the same slides over and over, I get different
results for the same slide - some times the slide is perfect, other
times the slide is color shifted (varying colors for the same slide).
Only some slides in a batch are color shifted.
We have been working with Nikon on this for a year and I am afraid to
say I am not impressed. Their recommendation was not to use ROC or GEM
as these might cause difficulties with their scanner. By the way, I am
using NikonScan but the same thing happened with VueScan. If I do not
use ROC, about 20% of the slides are too dark to be usable. I have
thousands of slides to do so I can not keep rescanning many times until
I get a good slide.
To eliminate variables, I have tried the scanners on multiple PC's and
Macs, all running different versions of system software and the problem
always shows up. I have also tried with and without the slide feeder
Nikon Service says it must be the slides but that would not explain why
scanning the same slide sometimes gives good results and sometimes bad.
It seems to me that it can not be the slides or the software since the
same input should give the same output. The only thing that makes
sense to me is an intermittent problem in the hardware (fluctuating
intensity of the diodes, power fluctuations on the sensor, etc.).
Nikon tested the machine and said it is working fine on their test bed.
I sent them some of my slides and they were able to reproduce the
problem if they use ROC but they say the scanner is fine and that I
will just need to turn ROC off and individually manipulate each slide
in Photoshop - that's not an option for 7,000 slides.
Is anyone else seeing this problem? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Ken
1990's) Ektachrome slides. I know some people have trouble with
Kodachrome slides but those work real well for us and we do not have
any of these problems. When we have post processing turned on and use
ROC, we can get severe color shifting. Below is a link to an example
(compressed) which shows an extreme magenta color shift:
http://www.usadiscountgenerators.com/ScannerProblem.html
If I keep rescanning the same slides over and over, I get different
results for the same slide - some times the slide is perfect, other
times the slide is color shifted (varying colors for the same slide).
Only some slides in a batch are color shifted.
We have been working with Nikon on this for a year and I am afraid to
say I am not impressed. Their recommendation was not to use ROC or GEM
as these might cause difficulties with their scanner. By the way, I am
using NikonScan but the same thing happened with VueScan. If I do not
use ROC, about 20% of the slides are too dark to be usable. I have
thousands of slides to do so I can not keep rescanning many times until
I get a good slide.
To eliminate variables, I have tried the scanners on multiple PC's and
Macs, all running different versions of system software and the problem
always shows up. I have also tried with and without the slide feeder
Nikon Service says it must be the slides but that would not explain why
scanning the same slide sometimes gives good results and sometimes bad.
It seems to me that it can not be the slides or the software since the
same input should give the same output. The only thing that makes
sense to me is an intermittent problem in the hardware (fluctuating
intensity of the diodes, power fluctuations on the sensor, etc.).
Nikon tested the machine and said it is working fine on their test bed.
I sent them some of my slides and they were able to reproduce the
problem if they use ROC but they say the scanner is fine and that I
will just need to turn ROC off and individually manipulate each slide
in Photoshop - that's not an option for 7,000 slides.
Is anyone else seeing this problem? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Ken