Kodak ColorPlus and ProImage ???

Thanks for the tip, @grat . I'm currently using Vuescan, which does a very good job of inversion and correction, if I can find a good film profile, and then GIMP. I'll take a look at Darktable -- especially since installing it is just one command (I use Ubuntu).

@Donald Qualls the version of Darktable you'll get via `apt install` is going to be much older than the latest, negadoctor won't be available. IIRC Darktable has a .deb download that you can install via dpkg -i

At present, I'm just looking at it to see if it's even worth bothering, i.e. does it do anything I can't get from Vuescan and GIMP -- and I was hoping to learn that without having to learn an entirely new interface, but that's clearly not going to happen; Darktable requires me to learn it to have any idea what it's actually good for. Oh well, I've got hundreds of hours to spare, right?

But yeah, lots of programs are way behind in the repositories, because of the vetting process -- security and reliability testing to extreme levels before they go in the standard repos. If I like it, I'll go look for the current version (as I did with GIMP, to the point of installing Snap so I could use the current Snap version instead of the last version packaged in .deb). Not a big fan of Snap, actually, because it makes it hard to do things like add brushes.

I like Pro Image 100 a lot, and find it very reasonably priced.

Darktable is an open source equivalent to Lightroom-- it does a great job of organizing, developing, and adjusting photos. It's not really an image editor (unlike The GIMP). It also performs non-destructive edits-- it saves the changes you've made, not to the original file, but to the metadata, either in .XMP files or in a database.

Since it was pointed out this is the analog only forum, I removed the big honkin' YouTube link, but you can find it, along with information on the negative conversion plugin here:

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/darktable-and-new-negadoctor-plugin.178807/

grat said:

Here's a decent introduction:

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Added to my (overflowing) Watch Later list.

One probably should note that, technically, suggestions to use Darktable or discussion of using it are off topic in this analog-only section. We can't avoid a small amount of digital, because otherwise how could we show our work on a digital communication medium? but the warning at the top of the page (when it appears) does talk about avoiding comments like "you could do that in Photoshop." I appreciate the pointer, but this thread is about a couple specific films -- which I haven't used, but would like to if they're available at consumer pricing.

Donald Qualls said:

Added to my (overflowing) Watch Later list.

One probably should note that, technically, suggestions to use Darktable or discussion of using it are off topic in this analog-only section. We can't avoid a small amount of digital, because otherwise how could we show our work on a digital communication medium? but the warning at the top of the page (when it appears) does talk about avoiding comments like "you could do that in Photoshop." I appreciate the pointer, but this thread is about a couple specific films -- which I haven't used, but would like to if they're available at consumer pricing.

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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1476367-REG/kodak_6034466_kodak_proimage_100_135_36.html

$27.49 at B&H for a pack of 5. Free shipping if you pad up the order to over $49.

Arcadia4 said:

Colorplus was stated by kodak in an interview to be based on kodacolor vr200 essentially an earlier film from the 1980s (82-86) in the same lineage as gold hence the retro tones (its successor being VR-G in 86-7; followed Gold 200 in 88). It was re-introduced in 1990 as a budget color film.

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This explains why I saw VR200 for sale at CVS in 3-packs (and purchased one) in the late 1990s. They also had a 12-pack (I believe) with 8-exposure rolls, geared toward real estate.

Thanks for the info.

Donald Qualls said:

Added to my (overflowing) Watch Later list.

One probably should note that, technically, suggestions to use Darktable or discussion of using it are off topic in this analog-only section.

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True. My apologies-- although in my defense, I didn't bring up the subject of scanning or inversion.

I'll cheerfully whack my post and recreate it over the in scanner section if people would prefer that.

grat said:

I'll cheerfully whack my post and recreate it over the in scanner section if people would prefer that.

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Just start a separate thread there - it will be both useful and remove the likelihood that this thread will be further derailed. You could even link to it here.
It actually would be quite helpful - particularly if the thread title references the name of the software, the name of the plugin, and Linux.

Huss said:

It's worth every penny. I have better things to do w my time than wrestle with conversions. Like take photos.

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Facts.

MattKing said:

Just start a separate thread there - it will be both useful and remove the likelihood that this thread will be further derailed. You could even link to it here.
It actually would be quite helpful - particularly if the thread title references the name of the software, the name of the plugin, and Linux.

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Done, and cleaned up my post above a bit.

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/darktable-and-new-negadoctor-plugin.178807/

Thanks!