Using a GFX100: to "scan" 120 MF and 4x5 negatives. What's needed? Is Negative Supply rig good?

Dismayed · Jul 23, 2021

Tom Kershaw said:
Try as I have, I've not been able to find a way that converts colour negative to positive as well as ColorPerfect. It is a strange situation really, in that there seem to be few satisfactory options, certainly outside the the realm of Adobe centric solutions. The method of manually dividing out a film base sample from the image, and then using adjustment curves gives an odd looking image to my eyes.

I was looking through some of my old C-41 contact sheets yesterday and the colour quality is excellent in most cases - this was on the discontinued Kodak Supra Endura paper.

I started a ColorPerfect user group on Flickr long ago. It's not very active now, like most of Flickr. But it may be worth posting there.

https://flickr.com/groups/colorperfect/

Tom Kershaw · Jul 23, 2021

Dismayed said:
I started a ColorPerfect user group on Flickr long ago. It's not very active now, like most of Flickr. But it may be worth posting there.

https://flickr.com/groups/colorperfect/

Thanks, yes, I had seen that group. To a certain extent I had forgotten about Flickr.

Dismayed · Jul 23, 2021

Here's an old photo of my sister-in-law with one of her twin sons that was inverted with ColorPerfect. The lad is starting college in September.

Tom Kershaw · Jul 23, 2021

Dismayed said:
Here's an old photo of my sister-in-law with one of her twin sons that was inverted with ColorPerfect. The lad is starting college in September.

That does show that ColorPerfect works well. My main issue with the software is that it can feel rather "clunky", and that I have it running on an old mac mini so need to do a certain amount of moving files around to get finished work back to my main computer - Linux / PhotoLine running in wine. https://www.winehq.org/

I'm also not 100% sure how CP works internally, despite reading through the instructions a few times.

Dismayed · Jul 23, 2021

Tom Kershaw said:
That does show that ColorPerfect works well. My main issue with the software is that it can feel rather "clunky", and that I have it running on an old mac mini so need to do a certain amount of moving files around to get finished work back to my main computer - Linux / PhotoLine running in wine. https://www.winehq.org/

I'm also not 100% sure how CP works internally, despite reading through the instructions a few times.

It is an odd interface. I'm running a mid-2010 Mac Pro that's been converted to Win 10 because Apple no longer supports OS updates on the old beast. It still runs well enough. I use Photoline, too, because of Adobe's pricing.

Tom Kershaw · Jul 23, 2021

Dismayed said:
It still runs well enough. I use Photoline, too, because of Adobe's pricing.

Good to hear of someone else running PhotoLine; it seems to be a rather ignored piece of software in certain quarters.

cayenne · Jul 23, 2021

wiltw said:
It is not as easy as one would think. I scanned a negative as if it were a positive, and then tried photo editing software to turn the negative scan into a positive image using the built in function. Not terrific results (middle photo), compared to simply letting the scanner software do the conversion (bottom photo)

Scanned neg, no conversion...

Converted neg-to-positive...

Scanner software embedded conversion of negative...

Take a look at this article, it got me going on the right track:

https://medium.com/@benjamin.bezine/scanning-film-negatives-with-capture-one-e707d52c9b7a

cayenne

wiltw · Jul 23, 2021

cayenne said:
Take a look at this article, it got me going on the right track:

https://medium.com/@benjamin.bezine/scanning-film-negatives-with-capture-one-e707d52c9b7a

cayenne

That article was actually of greater benefit in the link to a write up about Negative Lab Pro, since I do not use Capture One. Thx

Now I can look into Darktable and Negative Lab Pro

Using a GFX100: to "scan" 120 MF and 4x5 negatives. What's needed? Is Negative Supply rig good?

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