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Hi folks, hope this post finds you all well(stuffed!!) and full of the seasons spirits(mines a malt, thanks) sorry I meant spirit...

Anyhows, I am looking to profile the scanner in the new year and have seen posts re the Faust targets hereabouts. What do people who have them think of them, I have seen hutch targets for almost £300! is the difference in cost justified?

I am after profiling a Canon 9950f for mainly 5x4 Provia and Astia.

Any help/ advice appreciated

Thanks

Gari[/b]

I have the Faust targets for both Provia and Velvia 100; they really seem to be fine; I use Monaco EZColor to create the profiles. I get excellent colour matching and it makes an enormous difference if I try to scan without the profile but using the automatic settings in the scanner driver (yeucchh!!)

My personal advice is, buy with confidence and save tourself a packet.

Joanna, is it really worth getting profiles made for different film-types? I was under the impresion that the point of profiling your scanner is to correct for defects introduced by the scanner itself. Surely profiling for a specific film and the scanner would be counter-productive, or am I missing something?

There's been a thread on this very subject on the forum already, see :

viewtopic.php?t=215

Here is a series of scans I just made to illustrate the differences. I am using an Epson V700 to scan a Velvia 100 trannie.

First, using the Epson automatic scanning with no adjustments or profile.



Next, I scanned on Auto but with a profile specified to be used whilst scanning.

Using Velvia 100 profile:



Using Provia 100F profile:



Finally, I scanned as I would normally, with adjustments turned off and no profile assigned. Then I assigned the profile once the image was in Photoshop. This is the recommended workflow for profiled scanning.

With Velvia 100 profile assigned:



With Provia 100F profile assigned:



Despite the problems of a low res web image, I can still see differences between all of the above, although they are not as noticeable on an unprofiled monitor.

I have also updated the images held for the "Serendipity Strikes Again" thread in Critique to reflect the final edited images from this trannie.