Color differences in Nikon Scan
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From: Ivan on 18 Dec 2009 10:37 When i scan slides with my Nikon Coolscan V ED, there are often noticeable differences in color and tonality between Nikon Scan's preview window and its display of the completed scan. Any idea how to fix this? I'm using a PC with XP Pro and nVidia Quadro NVS 290 graphics card.
From: CSM1 on 18 Dec 2009 11:19 Ivan <ibphot(a)verizon.net> wrote in news:4bcc5c23-425c-4b22-814c- b142bacd3eb5(a)e27g2000yqd.googlegroups.com: > When i scan slides with my Nikon Coolscan V ED, there are often > noticeable differences in color and tonality between Nikon Scan's > preview window and its display of the completed scan. Any idea how to > fix this? I'm using a PC with XP Pro and nVidia Quadro NVS 290 > graphics card. What about your color management? Do you have the same color management for your Monitor, scanner and printer using the same color space? A lot of people use the sRGB color profile. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com --
From: Noons on 18 Dec 2009 19:46 Ivan wrote,on my timestamp of 19/12/2009 2:37 AM: > When i scan slides with my Nikon Coolscan V ED, there are often > noticeable differences in color and tonality between Nikon Scan's > preview window and its display of the completed scan. Any idea how to > fix this? I'm using a PC with XP Pro and nVidia Quadro NVS 290 > graphics card. You have to turn on color management in Nikonscan and chose and install one of the many profiles available. You'll need to let Nikonscan use the same profile for display and scanning and also install the same profile in your Windows screen settings. Ideally they should all match, but of course you can incur the overhead of on-the-fly profile matching.
From: Alan Wrigley on 19 Dec 2009 04:20 Noons <wizofoz2k(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Ivan wrote,on my timestamp of 19/12/2009 2:37 AM: > > When i scan slides with my Nikon Coolscan V ED, there are often > > noticeable differences in color and tonality between Nikon Scan's > > preview window and its display of the completed scan. Any idea how to > > fix this? I'm using a PC with XP Pro and nVidia Quadro NVS 290 > > graphics card. > > You have to turn on color management in Nikonscan and chose and install one of > the many profiles available. You'll need to let Nikonscan use the same profile > for display and scanning and also install the same profile in your Windows > screen settings. Ideally they should all match, but of course you can incur the > overhead of on-the-fly profile matching. But surely the question is: since the preview and the full scan are both coming from the same scanner and being displayed on the same screen by the same piece of software, at which point in the chain is a different colour profile being used and why? Alan
From: Noons on 19 Dec 2009 07:36
Alan Wrigley wrote,on my timestamp of 19/12/2009 8:20 PM: >> You have to turn on color management in Nikonscan and chose and install one of > >> the many profiles available. You'll need to let Nikonscan use the same > profile >> for display and scanning and also install the same profile in your Windows >> screen settings. Ideally they should all match, but of course you can incur > the >> overhead of on-the-fly profile matching. > > But surely the question is: since the preview and the full scan are both coming > from the same scanner and being displayed on the same screen by the same piece > of software, at which point in the chain is a different colour profile being > used and why? And surely the answer is: if you don't tell Nikonscan which color profile to scan with and Windows which color profile to display with, you are in a mess. Nikonscan displays nothing, Windows does. Read on the subject, it's worth it. |