Does anyone have *recommended analog gain* settings to compensate for
Nikon's LS-30 (a.k.a. CoolScan III) shameful inability to accurately
scan Kodachrome slides? I'm referring to dark scans and, most of all,
the very heavy blue cast.

Sure, I can come up with an approximation myself and there are a lot
of "about" guesses on the Net, but I'd like proper values arrived at
with densinometers and the like...

The massively incompetent Nikon's (so-called) "support" is not even
aware of the problem (or doesn't wish to disclose it) and I'll think
twice before throwing any money their way in the future!

Thanks very much in advance.

Don.

Don wrote:
I don't have the answer you're really after, but it sounds like you need a
Kodachrome it8 target, and some profiling software.

Kodachrome i18 targets appear to be few a far between. As a cheaper
alternative, Vuescan also has a kodachrome setting that may be superior to
the one Nikon View doesn't have.

You may want to take a look at Ian Lyons's article discussing IT8 targets:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/it8cal/it8_page_1.htm

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Mike Russell
http://www.curvemeister.com
http://www.zocalo.net/~mgr
http://geigy.2y.net

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:30:57 GMT, "Mike Russell"
<geigyREMOVE@pacbell.net> wrote:

Thanks, Mike! Will do.

Don.