>>3203429Yeah it's taken some time to re-adjust my color corrections and take advantage of the added shadow detail without the flatbed noise. The banding in the natural vignette areas of wide large format shots is also gone. The flatbed could not deal with the subtle fade to darker tones in the corners of clear skies without causing a ton of nasty color banding. There's a few tricks with simple curves layers I've learned to take advantage of those bonuses. Some adjustments will always need made after a scan because the drum scanner requires a 20 year old mac to operate and there's no way I'm going to trust the output on that thing, on top of that the OS version is too old for my spyder monitor calibrator to work.
As far as the strong colors go, I would say the drum scanner picks up higher levels of saturation in the base scan compared to a flatbed. Greens and yellows seem particularly strong. Since even just using curves layers to slightly correct the contrast can make the image appear more saturated, it's helpful to create a hue/sat layer that actually subtly reduce saturation. And I mean slightly, most of my saturation adjustments are like -2. That's never a layer you want to mess with much.
>>3203445Thanks anon. I might consider submitting to this book.
Another drum scan on Provia
