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Copying photographic prints

Started May 27, 2014 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
Guy Parsons Forum Pro • Posts: 40,000
Colour negs

Mucho fiddling with colour neg copies via camera and not lots of success.

Using RAW and curves to set each RGB channel appropriately to make the neg to positive seems to be a good approach, but I think I'll revive my film scanner to make life easier, now where did I put that SCSI card?

Googling about found this page that tells the story and why I have problems.....

http://www.marginalsoftware.com/HowtoScan/DiscussionsTone/scanning_color_negative_film.htm

Trying to make a curves set to extract the channels properly is a real problem, and did get quite close on a few, but oh so painful to get something I liked.

I had forgotten what rubbish film is. All that grain, we'd be really angry muppets if our m4/3 cameras were that bad at base ISO.

Regards........ Guy

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