Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

This accords with my procedure, which follows Dan Margulis's method:

Find the highlight, shadow and midtone gray - the numbers should show
neutral or should be corrected to result in a neutral black/gray/white - M=Y
and C a shade higher.  All other colors should essentially fall into place
absent unusual circumstances, even without a gray card.

Maris

----- Original Message -----
From: "shAf" <michael@shaffer.net>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Color Calibration


| Michael writes ...
|
| > I shoot mostly architecture ... exteriors are pretty easy to
| > scan and get the color close enuf ... however when it
| > comes to interiors, it is whole different story.. ... what I
| > am thinking of doing is making up 3 large (say 12"x12") panels, one
| > white, one 18% gray, one white, attaching a color bar underneath and
| > sticking that in the main light area of each different view, ...
|
|     Many will tell you, nailing a neutral shade will be the best place
| to start ... as if all you needed was the gray and white cards.
|
| shAf  :o)
|