May depend on how it was digitized. Great quality scanner, but unless it is a serious drum scanner that cost more than we want to discuss. Other means to do potential PP could be using a great Macro 1:1 lens and a high MP Digital camera with a device that can set what ever light temp you would want to capture the original slide from it's origin. Also using a very stable platform to hold the image and camera steady and using a calibrated PC for color presentation and zoomed in focus to ensure the sharpest image possible.
I have seen many serious old Movies that were captured in 35mm and converted to Serious HD and each frame is a sight to behold using Extachrome. I guess it is all in the eyes of the beholder. Ever listen to a high quality of an LP on a great turntable and compare the same audio on a CD? The LP gives the depth of the sound you can" provide on the CD one would purchase. Just MHOP.
Mark,
I have been researching how to manage the capture process and process in Adobe Light Room and Photoshop to ensure how the best color ends up being retained. I have discovered that scanning via quality scanner and saving as tiff files is quite different than using a high MP camera capturing the raw images. This is a complete new process for me.
The learning cure is fairly high for me as the slides has no color ICC Profile as a defined input source but capturing in Raw will be no ICC profile defined as I will be viewing in Light Room Adobe Pro RGB and retain that color space through out until I need to output the images to a different media. Right now my Monitor doesn't support Adobe RGB color space but looking to get a new monitor so I can edit in a higher Color Space to show the best images to the family when done.
The original slides were captures with a Asahi Pentax I purchased in Hong Kong in 1967-68 and the 35mm camera was all manual but it had a light meter built in. What a concept. Most images were taken with the 55mm Super-Takaumar F1.4 lens I purchased with it. Still own the camera. I will keep you in mind and let you know how it goes. My spouse started coping the slides with a slide copier that only captured jpeg files & I set up the HP flatbed scanner so she could copy and save to tiff. OK but still wanted to see if I can do better.
I have taken thousands of slides with Ektachrome and enjoyed all of it. Now my spouse has converted all the slides to tiff files that are now in my lightroom. I am on a new mission to do raw digital capture using my 70D and a very dated Beseler Deluxe Dual Mode Slide duplicator. To see if I can improve the slides using raw files from my camera to improve the white balance and overall color of some slides. Has anyone ever used Ektachrome film to do astrophotography extended exposures?
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