Color Calibration Monitor/Scanner

[jasona1]

I am looking into the Colorvision Spyder2. I will not be calibrating a

printer. Just my LCD and CRT. Is there another solution out there that

offers calibration of my Minolta Scan Dual IV? I don't scan too much

but I can never seem to get the scan to match the slide. Will merely

calibrating my monitor take care of this or is there something else

that needs to be done? (i.e. scanning a slide of a color palette and

calibrating from there)

 

Thanks for any info.........

[ellis_vener_photography]

calibrating and profiling a monitor only addresses what the monitor is doing. It won't

affect your printer or your scanner ...or your camera for that matter. It only acts on the

signal that is goingto your monitor and brings as close as your monitor will allow to a

neutral view of the data that makes up your iamge.

 

Both Vuescan pro and Silverfast Ai6 have built in scanner profiling software. other

companies like Gretag-Macbeth, Monaco (Monaco EZcolor) and Chromix make profiling

software.

 

You'll need an

IT-8 target and the refernce files for that specific target. Silverfast makes their own IT-8

transparency targets (for kodak E-6 and the Fuji Provia family of films) in their own facility

and they are very good. Ai6 and the silverfast targets are what I use. ther target /reference

file makers include Wolf Faust, Kodak, but the best come from http://

www.hutchcolor.com/