doug_green1

I appreciate your taking the trouble (or accepting the challenge!) to show me what is achievable, and I'll deploy those suggestions. Most have the yellow smudge you removed, that is the "ground zero" of a web of fungal growth which covers most of each slide. I agree I am probably expecting too much from these 37 year old Agfacolours. I seem to recall they went to Bangkok for processing (we lived in Singapore - high humidity/temperature), and later Agfa slides which I had done in the US have lasted far better. Also I'm not sure at what stage we started keeping them in plastic boxes with silica gel! Having said all that, I have some Kodachrome from the previous year which lost colour as bad as these but with little fungus, but also some KC from the same years these (1973) which are nearly as good as new. I think the KC were processed in Singapore. Thanks again - I'll persevere up the learning curve!

Thanks for the suggestions. The auto correct in Lightroom doesn't make much difference, and I've been all over the various sliders including the individual colour. It seems there's no longer any blue or aqua to work with and red + green have survived the ravages of time.

Patience please - relative beginner! The Kodachrome slides have held up quite well, but the Agfa, kept in the same sealed plastic tubs with silica gel, seem to have faded and taken on a slightly red cast and/or a preponderance of green if thats not too much of a contradiction. The Agfa slides have a buildup of deposits on the emulsion which resists removal. IR clean suppresses it but not totally. None of the Kodak slides have this. In the hope that someone else has met the same issue, I wonder whether anyone could offer setting for me to start experimenting with? I am on the scanning learning curve, honing my skills on the family holiday pics before tackling thousands of aviation slides and negs, with a Coolscan 5000ED on a Mac in case that's relevant. Images are with default settings in Vuescan with no post editing. Many Thanks

Thanks to All for the replies. The user sounds quite computer-literate, likely more than I am, and I'm working on the basis that he's sincere and hasn't damaged it. I sent a link to a Youtube vid of enabling Windows 10 to run Nikon Scan, and he replied he'd already tried that with the same symptom. No error message has been mentioned, and the concept of filling up whatever storage location he's using, possibly with high re scans, occurred to me also. If it was a hardware issue, surely someone else would have experienced it. I get the feeling I'm going to end up getting it back, hooking it up and finding it runs fine...... Thanks again

I wondered whether anyone had seen this issue. Its used with Vuescan, single slide adapter and Windows 10. I sold the scanner and the new user says it will do 4 or 5 scans ok then aborts mid-scan, with the green light extinguishing on the scanner. He can get it going again with power down and re-open Vuescan, but it fairly consistently fails after a few scans. Needless to say the scanner, although its probably heavily used over its life, did a few thousand scans problem-free for us (on Mac + Nikon scan, and Mac + Vuescan). Therefore I suspect a conflict with some other software on his PC, or with other devices attached. I can't see it being a Vuescan setting. Any comments will be appreciated. Many Thanks