Do you use Vuescan's "Restore Colors" Filter?

[dano1]

Hey all.

 

I've been trying out this filter option in Vuescan. It seems to work

out great for newer negatives. However, I found some old Kodachromes

that looked pretty crazy with the option. Though, oddly enough they

did look under-saturated when I turned it off.

 

One thing I have noticed is that like several other filters, one has

to complete the scan to really tell what the filter will do to the image.

 

 

Do you guys use this filter?

 

How are the results?

 

Thanks,

Dan O.

[dano1]

Just thought I'd post some results:

 

 

 

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[ulrich_michel]

Restore Colors is a real livesaver for my vacation slide collection from the 60's. You are correct in observing final scan differs from prescan and its setting. Dont know the reason, so I just make an educated guess based on the first complete scan result. These are no Michelangelos im trying to achieve, just trilled to be able to save the bleached and neglected collection to enjoy the memorys another Day. Wisch I had used all Kodachromes as they were the best preserved from the time.

 

Good luck, Michel.

[dano1]

Thanks Micheal,

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Seeing the good luck I had with the color 120 negatives, I went ahead and completed a scan of an old Kodachrome. I really thought it would come out over-saturated due to the preview, but man, it looks so fantastic!

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Somehow I've never gotten colors this awesome with my negatives or old family slides that I've scanned. They are just so vibrant.

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You're right, it is a real lifesaver!

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My only problem now is that I've already done 150 scans without the restore colors filter.

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I suppose I can just re-do the best ones, but it's going to add a lot of time to the project.

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I found an old box of mostly kodachromes and ectachromes that my parents had stored away since 1980. They date back to as early as their honeymoon in 1965, and as late as my youngest sister being a toddler. So, there's photos from when each of my 7 older siblings were infants, toddlers, and a lot of when my older siblings were into junior high.

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Here's one I just scanned tonight.

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It's times like these that make me glad I'm an analog photographer. I really don't think people will be digging shoeboxes of old CD's out of their attics in 40 years and be able to access/read them.

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Dan O.

[ulrich_michel]

Hi Dan,

 

If you scan and save one copy in RAW TIF and annother in jpeg at the same time, you can always go back and rescan the raw file from disc with different settings later. Infact this raw file will then become the artefact to be found by your grand kids and may be processed automaticaly by some to this day unknown software to produce fabulus pictures of grand dad.

 

Have seen quite somme post's about this dream software of the future, who knows?

 

If only the discs are going to last as long as film!

 

Good Luck, Michel.

[mendel_leisk]

Dan, I'm with Ulrich on this. Save the Vuescan Raw File first, then you can play around with restore color later, without altering the orig. scan.

[dano1]

Thanks Guys,

 

I used to work with RAW images all the time. What I found was that they were taking up quite a bit of HD space. Many of them I burned to DVD, but several got the axe.

 

I Should just buy another hard drive. I've only got 160GB of HD space locally, and another 60GB on the Linux File Server. Right now most of that is full.

 

I should just buy a 200GB disk and be done with it. Well, at least for the next year or two anyway.

 

I've already blown close to $300 this month on Photography, so it will have to wait until next month.

 

Thanks,

Dan O.