Photography has entertained, informed and infuriated me for 70 years. However, I am not a photographer. I use video and still photography to record and illustrate my observations of the natural world. In this blog I also comment on optical equipment used for viewing wildlife and on the changes in photography from the 1950s to the present day
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Scanning Kodak Elite Chrome 100 and Ektachrome 100 Plus
I scanned a couple of hundred Elite Chrome 100 slides (plastic mounts) for #2 son. I had the Nikon LS-40 ED (Coolscan IV) handy and used the latest edition of Vuescan (9.4.40). The results were superb, some of the best non-Kodachrome scans I have seen. This film from the late 1990s though was very 'grainy' or 'dye-cloudy' especially in some underexposed areas and had a magenta cast (variable between individual films) that was easily corrected. A 36-exposure Ektachrome 100 Plus (early 1990s) had a much cooler cast (very Ektachrome) but again produced excellent results from the twenty-year old transparencies. For both I had the IR dust removal on.
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