V700 doesnt display Portra properly?

[papo]

A friend of mine has the V700 and uses Silverfast as th software and whenever he scans a Portra 400, the results are very disappointing because they dont display that "Portra look" so he has to work in it in post production, which is hard for him to do.

I am pretty shocked to hear of this. Can anyone confirm these kinda issues?

 

[bhop73]

I dunno what Portra 400 is "supposed" to look like, but this is how my V700 churns it out. I use Epsonscan (best for me)

That said, I almost always have to adjust the color on C41 scans, no matter what film it is. I do it in the scan software though, otherwise it's a huge pain to try to do it after.

The Wall by Brandon, on Flickr

Chaba by Brandon, on Flickr

Birdhouse by Brandon, on Flickr

 

[bayernfan]

Portra 400 out of my V750:

M_V1

M_V2

M_V3

Scanning color is truly a skill to be learned. Keep practicing and use the advanced settings.

 

[Scapevision]

stop thinking what it supposed to look like, scanning is basically making a raw file that needs to be developed

 

[charjohncarter]

Are you looking for this look (sorry wide open at 1/25 with an Agfa Isolette II)? :


Kodak Portra by John Carter, on Flickr

If you are try RFF's Swift1's blog post:

http://www.coltonallen.com/getting-the-most-from-color-negative-film-with-your-epson-flatbed/

 

[benlees]

I use Epson scan and don't tweek them after. Seem to turn out all right. It's been years since I set up the scanner, however.

 

[Satisfied Fool]

Isn't it a bit optimistic to expect raw scans to be finished? I think color correction is part of it. When printing color photographs in a darkroom one also calibrates / corrects the colors...

 

[Ronald M]

Original Portra was lower contrast & lower color saturation. Later was boosted and made to scan better. There was also a more color saturated originally also 160 speed. Both are rolled into current product so adjust your scan to produce what you want.

I am sure you can save as a preset. You can as an Epson scan.

 

[mod2001]

It not directly depeding on the scanner, more the software and its profiles you use for scanning in case you don't work with RAW or untouched TiFF for later corrections in post.

I work since years with Color Perfect (http://www.colorperfect.com/colorperfect.html?lang=en), once you get the lets say 'uncommon' user interface, it delivers excellent results in a very short time. normally 2-3 klicks and done. Especially with Kodak Ektar a dream, could never archive the same results in PS or LR.

As far as I remember, Epsonscan and Portra should work too without massiv color correction afterwards.

Yogi

 

[SaveKodak]

Getting the color you want in a scan is not automatic. You often have to do a lot of work to get everything looking just right. Just like when making darkroom prints, they were not automatically color balanced by the enlarger, you had to do that yourself, and you still do.