nicoimages wrote:
Jon Buffington wrote
Very nice Gary and Nicholas! Thank you - really like the Pakon scans - so hard to find the scanner at a reasonable price. Do you have to do a lot of PP to the output to correct colour or do the inbuilt profiles work well enough?
The baked in profiles are fantastic. If I do any adjusting, it is WB and that is primarily due to shooting in shade/evening. Also sometimes sloppy in my developing so get that magenta cast from bad temps/expired chems. However when I am doing it correctly, no correction needed. You can also do the correction in the PSI software so really working at that point with the raw file. I forget this though and do simple edits in LR (black/white point setting, little bit sharpening and that is it).
The pakon is really a joy to use. I got mine (plus model) back when they were $250. Nowhere near that now. The non plus though can use the TLX client software and get the same rez files, just a tad slower (the plus can use the PSI software, a little less clunky than TLX). If you like to shoot a lot of 35mm, it really is worth the money. I can scan a weeks worth of film in under a half hour with minimal to no post processing compared to what would take all day on a flatbed plus lots of color correction.