Thanks, Gonz.  Turns out, VueScan has a Kodachrome option.  I suppose
my query was a bit premature.

I, too, have read in quite a few places that Kodachrome is
particularly difficult to scan.  I'll give it another shot a bit later
and see if it improves any.

Thanks!

On 3/24/06, Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If its Kodachrome, you're gonna have a real hard time getting it to look
> like a projected slide.  I've tried just about everything, but the only
> people that ever came close was an outfit in Florida that did some type
> of tri-color laser scan with all sorts of color matching profiles.  They
> are no longer in business.
>
> Scott Loveless wrote:
> > The drivers provided with my scanner tend to not reproduce my slides
> > very accurately.  My initial thought was to set up a projector right
> > next to the computer and just do a visual comparison, but this leads
> > to lots of Photoshop time, which I would like to keep to a minimum,
> > and monitor calibration, which I can't do at the moment.  Giving
> > VueScan a whirl, a straight scan with no adjustments yielded a
> > significant improvement, but it's still not quite what I want.  So I
> > got a copy of VueScan Pro since it includes ICC profiling and IT8
> > calibration.  I'm wondering if obtaining color calibration targets for
> > the film I'm using would help?  Am I on the right track, or am I doing
> > this the hard way?  Will VueScan support multiple film profiles?
> > Their documentation only mentions a single film.it8 file, not multiple
> > files for different film types.  I feel like I'm missing something.
> > Any help would be much appreciated, and is probably worth a beer or
> > two at GFM.  (I'm already running out of beer, and we're not even
> > there yet.  <g>)
> >
> > --
> > Scott Loveless
> > http://www.twosixteen.com
> >
> > --
> > "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman
> >
>
> --
> Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I
> was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's
> a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?
> - Mitch Hedberg
>
>


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