Kodak reintroduced Ektachrome in 2018/2019, several years after production this once popular film had been suspended. I’ve been experimenting with Kodak Ektachrome E100 slide film. Plus fine adjustments to color temperature and color balance. Except for scaling, I made no changes to the slide image.Īdjusted scan shadow areas were lightened, highlights were lowered, edges of the image were cropped. Hamrick Software’s VueScan work window.Į100 slide, ISO 100 exposed with a Canon EOS3 with 40mm pancake lens. I scanned the slide using a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 scanner, set to 4000 dpi and a ‘White Balance’ color profile.īelow I’ve attached the VueScan control window that shows my various manual settings the RAW uninterpreted scan of the slide, and the adjusted scan after I altered shadow and highlight contrast and other parameters in Adobe Lightroom. With slides I get the best of both worlds analog archival material and a scannable transparency that is easily digitized for internet presentation. In addition to a great number of digital photographs, I also exposed color slides for slide shows and to keep for posterity. Septemwas a perfect clear day with rich blue sky and warm late-summer sun. Mike Gardner catches the action on Halloween day 1997.Īmong the hundreds of 35mm slides returned to me from the processing lab the other day was this Kodak Ektachrome E100 slide of Conway Scenic Railroad 5 leading the 2020 Railfan’s Day photo freight that I helped organize. Adobe Lightroom work window showing the relative positions of slider controls that implemented adjustments to my original scan. This is the same scan following myriad adjustements to improve the appearance of the image. The slide is darker and cooler than I’d like, but captures the train in late autumn foliage. Scan of my Fujichrome Provia 100 slide without adjustments. I’ve also included a photo of Mike, who is a regular Tracking the Light reader. Adjustments included warming the color temperature, adjusting sky denisty, lightening the overall exposure, and contrast control. I scanned it with a Nikon LS-5000 slide scanner powered by VueScan 9.7.95 (recently updated from the earlier version of VueScan that I’d been using for a few years), and then imported the high-res TIF file (scanned at 4000 dpi in ‘Fine’ mode) into Adobe Lightroom for adjustment and scaling.īelow are JPGs from the unaltered scan and from my adjusted scan to improve the overall visual appeal of the time. The soft afternoon sun resulted in a somewhat under exposed slide that never made my final cut, and so remained in the green Fuji box for more than 25 years. On Halloween day 1997, we followed southward freight 608 to New London, photographed a few Amtrak trains on the Shore Line, then followed 608 on its northward return trip to Palmer, Massachusetts.Īt South Windham, Connecticut, I made a view on the old Fuji Provia 100 (RDP) using my first Nikon N90S with f2.8 80-200mm Nikon zoom lens. I found a roll from a day out with photographer Mike Gardner to capture New England Central in Connecticut. The other day I was going through a carton of slide boxes from the mid-1990s. Enlarged view V600 with VueScan_9.7.96, medium mask at 3200dpi. Enlarged view: V600 with VueScan_9.7.96, no mask at 3200dpi. Enlarged viewl V600 with Epson Scan 2, middle mask at 3200dpi. V600 with Epson Scan 2, middle mask at 3200dpi. Enlarged view: V600 with Epson Scan 2, low mask at 3200dpi. V600 with Epson Scan 2, low mask at 3200dpi. Enlarged view: V600 with Epson Scan 2, no mask at 3200dpi. V600 with Epson Scan 2 software, no mask at 3200dpi. The purpose of these various scans is to show how minor changes in scanning may alter the end appearance of the scan. The first three were exposed with Epson Scan 2 software the last two using VueScan 9.7.96. In addition to the full scan of each slide is a greatly enlarged view to better judge the quality of the scan All were scaled from TIF RAW files using Lightroom without alterations in post processing (In otherwords other than scaling, I didn’t make changes to the files to alter the appearance of the scans.) All were made with an Epson V600 flatbed scanner. I exposed this Kodachrome 25 color slide on of Conrail SD80MACs leading SEBO eastbound approaching CP83 in Palmer, MA.īelow, I’ve posted five different examples of scans all from the same slide.
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