Well, despite what I said I had another look at the slides from the Nikon F2 and they weren’t so bad. The later ones were actually quite passable in places so I’ve stuck ten on them in this photoset.
For the record they were taken using Astia 100F colour slide film and scanned using a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000. I did a minimal amount of tweaking in Photoshop, resized to 1028 wide, sharpened once and saved. The black border was produced by the scanner and I quite liked it so it stayed, hence no cropping. This is pretty much how they came out.
I’m going to leave the Nikon be for a month or so while I play with the Fuji’s manual settings but it’ll certainly come out again.
Did you re-scan after our chat on Saturday? They look fine to me. Astia is a very gentle color film with natural saturation, a sort of what you see is what you get in nature film. Of course you can always increase the saturation in Photoshop. . . .
The colour to the fore of that is really beautiful. Those are the nicest brown leaves I’ve seen in a while.