Cross-processed slide film scanning thread

[mabelsound]

schow suggested in a previous thread that we start some kind of xproc silde film scanning project, since it's kind of a challenge to make this work. So here are some of today's results and how I got them. Please add your own techniques and photos!

Film: Fuji Velvia, exposed at 64.
Developer: C41 home dev kit.
Scanner: Coolscan 5000ED.
Software: Vuescan.
Settings:
Color Balance = White Balance
Media = Image
Black point = 0.1
White point = 0.1
Curve low = 0.25
Curve high = 0.7

Afterward, I turned the negative to a positive with IrfanView, then adjusted exposure, blacks, recovery, and clarity in Lightroom. I also sharpened but will probably undo that later, it looks weird at 100%.

Pics:

[mabelsound]

I should add that going sledding with my kids is the photographic situation that a DSLR with tele zoom is made for. So of course I left mine in the drawer and brought a manual focus film rangefinder with a 50.

[dmr]

This blog entry tells most of the story:

http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/10/...sing-bean.html

Fuji Sensia, processed in a drug store Fuji Frontier, with Kodak chemistry, I believe. Scanned in the K-M SD IV as color positives, inverted and tweaked in Photoshop.

[schow]

There's that good ol' red casted velvia!
Say, is that Velvia or Velvia F version?
I didn't know "regular" Vevlia has the redish cast.

I'll try and add more about my experience with velvia during the weekend.


Happy Holidays, folks.

[unclescarMT]

I just got back a roll of kodak E100GX that I had cross processed. can you say "sickly green"? not something I would do all the time, but an interesting experiment nonetheless. taken w/ M2 & CV 35/2.5

[mabelsound]

Originally Posted by unclescarMT

I just got back a roll of kodak E100GX that I had cross processed. can you say "sickly green"? not something I would do all the time, but an interesting experiment nonetheless. taken w/ M2 & CV 35/2.5

How did you scan it?

[mabelsound]

Originally Posted by schow

There's that good ol' red casted velvia!
Say, is that Velvia or Velvia F version?
I didn't know "regular" Vevlia has the redish cast.

It's "regular" RVP100.

[unclescarMT]

right, of course. scanned as negative w/ epson V500. I used the epson software, w/ no correction. I did do some adjustment in PS to boost the contrast some and adjusted the levels a bit.

[Keith]

The only way I've been able to get acceptable consistent results is by scanning as a positive ... any other way seems fraught with the danger of the scanner's software taking over to a point, even though dissabled as much as is possible. The perfect x-processed scan to me is one with an unusual colour balance but not with a cast dominating the entire image.