Public Transport

Do I have this right? This is negative film processed to give a transparency? It has then had the orange mask removed?

No criticism implied here, just trying to understand. It looks a bit different than results I've seen from other sources.

PE

Yep, Kodak Gold 200 processed in the Kodak E6 kit; I did extend the first developer time a touch over what I normally use for true E6. Orange mask not (deliberately) removed. About the only 'post processing' is to bump the contrast/compress the curve a bit (as a positive, it makes a rather thin slide,) but basically this is pretty much exactly as it looks on the light table (insofar as a JPEG of a negative scan can ever be.)

Yes, I'm as surprised as the next man - the highlights come through remarkably clean, with the orange cast being far more obvious in the shadow tones.

Very nice.

I've never scanned one, but I have seen the transparencies themselves. That tweak probably does a world of good, but I can't judge never having done it.

Did you scan as a negative or a slide in the options? Scanning as a negative automatically would remove the orange mask, but then you would have to invert it.

PE

Thanks!

Yes, scanned as a slide - to avoid the correction for the mask. (It's fairly tedious scanning them this way though - the orange mask and the general thinness of the 'slide' throws the frame detection off totally - so much manual overriding, punctuated by having to hard reset the damn thing when it decides it's going to try and go scanning beyond the end of the film strip and gets itself in a tizzy...)

I never did myself any color (neg. or pos.) so I dont understand enough what is goiing on technically here, but the result catched me by some hue or slight color shift. It has the same feel like color movies from 60' or 70'. Together with cogwheel from probably this time ....
r.