The exception is of course if several frames have been shot in identical lighting, like in a studio setting. Because the light in each scene will differ a batch conversion won't be able to know what the light is supposed to be. In most situations that will not work because of the nature of colour negative film where the negative is an intermediate step before the final image (whether printed or positive on a screen). The second thing that I find difficult to accept is that it would be able to do good batch conversions of colour negative. Perhaps it depends on the scanner one uses or the settings (such as whether one scans linear TIFF or not), but with the three I have and the workflow I have adopted (which is linear scans to be able to run the images through ColorPerfect) ACR works wonderfully well. What I find interesting is the statement on that Adobe Camera Raw does not work well with film scans. I guess the only way to introduce a new (better?) process now, is if a developer can produce a self-contained application, without the need for Lightroom or PhotoShop - but this is obviously MUCH more work. Even if I give him a one-time donation of $25, there's no guarantee that even 1% of users would do the same - so the project would be infintely better charging $10 or $50 (or anything in between).Īs I said, freeware kills innovation in the entire area of color-inversion software. The developer says people can donate if they want to "to ensure future development" (or something like that). I don't even see the reason for a closed-source project that's also free? That way it's less likely to become abandonware. The best scenario for a freeware product, is that it's at least open-source. But most of all I'm worried about the future of that software also: which is dependent on just one developer (who seems to update less frequently these days). I like ColorPerfect - but it has its quirks. I want the scanning software to output a neutral, 48bit linear scan, with no image-manipulation at all (ideally). I've been using ColorPerfect for my scans (for the first couple years from Vuescan, and nowadays from Silverfast). And I agree that 'freeware' doesn't instill confidence. I was also confused by the article, it started out sounding like a good idea but as more and more lard was spread on it started to sound more and more bloated. Why is it needed then, the average scanner can convert the image negative to positive and batch process anyway, no further processing required? The let down feature of Lightroom or Photoshop is they are poor at converting a negative into a positive (the 'invert image' function not to be confused with 'rotate image'), you either need more intelligent software to process your camera scans in which photographing a negative comes out as a negative, or you use a scanner and it's software that you can adjust according to film type and personal preferences before pressing the scan button. In fact it works (and possibly is primarily intended for?) linear TIFF scans from scanners. Heres the results of early morning scans today.I was confused by the article - probably just read it too quickly - and first got the impression this was just a plugin for use with digital camera captures. After a lot of twerking in the software, exporting to TIFF and editing in Lightroom. And this was finally the quality I was looking for. After trying this for several days, I couldn’t say I was too happy.Ī couple of weeks later I decided to try scanning again after finding the software Silverfast. I tried to scan as negatives in the software and positive to convert with negative lab pro in Adobe Lightroom. This seemed to be my saving grace, but the quality was shit if you ask me. So after a lot of google searching, I stumbled onto the software Vuescan. I started with looking into software to this, which wasn’t as easy as it seemed like the original software from canon was impossible to download. This scanner I got from finn.no for cheap (800NOK). My flatbed scanner in the CanoScan 9000F Mark II. After picking up my first 120mm medium format camera, the Mamiya M645 with the 80mm F2.8 lens, I wanted to scan my negatives to get the most out of them.įor months I have tried to scan them with little to no luck. For a while, I have been trying to learn how to scan my negatives.
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