Cory Papenfuss wrote: > Hey all... got a film-related question here. I was going to scan > in a bunch of 35mm color slides from a family trip 20 years ago. Some of > them were accidentally cross-processed by the lab... I think as color > negative film (very dark?). Maybe they were just underdeveloped. I don't > know. > > I was going to scan in all the non-broken ones and archive them > digitally. Is there any way to at least partially save the dark ones? I > haven't scanned any in yet to see if the colors are wonky, or they're just > dark. > > Any ideas? I'm not looking to restore them perfectly... just > extract a decent rendition of slides that the family has never really > "seen." > > -Cory > I've scanned slides that were the other way - either over exposed originally, or faded, to almost colourlessness. I managed to extract viable images from them.
My understanding of cross processing was that, if it was done completely, the final bleach would remove all traces of an image. Yours sound more like underexposure. You have nothing to lose but your time...... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
