archive color - correction like in pro-labs

[Grinschus]

Hallo,

the last months some friends/photographers came up with the advise to check some us labs like "richard lab" or "indie lab"
I saw some of their scan-results and their are to some point really impressive.
So i started some reasearch on the web: they are working most of the time with frontiers/noritsu - scanners.
In our university ( i study photography) we have next to lab some scanners (flextights and nikon 9000) but i can tell, that i never saw that "well" (not accurate!) colorcorrected examples in other students work, as i saw in from these labs). Aswell i have not seen that good scans from color-labs here in Germany! To some point it is somehow more like just a colorbalance, but i do not why...
anyway: the conclussion seems to be, that the magic happens in the scanning - process.

1. Sure, it is the skill of the operator and a well-prepared profile/ color-workflow.

2. here comes the question/point:  I've heard, that the lab-scanners render/digitalize colors in another way, than "prosumer"-scanners do.
When you use different scanners with the same adjustments you get different interpretation of colors, but after matching them there is still a difference.
is it possible to archive  - with some experience and lots of literature -  exact (or almost ) the same colors/tonality with f.e.  an imacon or coolscan as with an frontier or a noritsu?

Again: this is not about the technical qualitity of the final scan.
(at that point i will send them some rolls next week to see the prints results)


 


Best regards,

Grinschus

[Mark D Segal]

Imacon and Nikon scanners are very high quality machines from which you should be able to get very high quality results if you use good software and good technique. These units have been in widespread professional use for many years.

[tived]

It could be fair to say, that perhaps the students at your university isn't so well versed in the art of scanning yet, that it is not just click a button and off you go. The operators at your two labs could be very good at getting the very best out of their tools!

Welcome to photography - "Wow, what a great photo - you must have a good camera!" :-) LOL

All the best

Henrik

[Ellis Vener]

You want truly great scans? check out Lenny Eiger's work at eigerphoto.com http://www.eigerphoto.com/approach_ep.php

[digitaldog]

+1 Henrik and Mark.

As someone that's worked with a lot of scanners (from Leaf 45's in the old days, to drum scanners then onto Imacon), a huge part of the quality is the operator. Especially with neg films!