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Copying color negatives with camera

Started Oct 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
OP AdHoc007 Contributing Member • Posts: 657
Re: Copying color negatives with camera
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D Cox wrote:

Assuming you have Photoshop (an old version will do).

First check that your image is 16 bits per channel. If not, change it in Image Mode.

Invert.

Go to Curves. Under Options, enable "Snap Neutral Midtones". Click OK. This will probably give a rather pale image with nearly correct colours.

Go to Levels. Use the middle slider to darken the image if necessary. Then you can adjust the colour balance to taste by using the middle slider for red, green or blue separately. Very likely a slight touch of red is all you need.

That method is producing interesting results.

I took a couple of shots of the same negative with different white balance adjustments in-camera. It looks like on the histogram that the balance of red blue and green are at different "phases" horizontally they don't line up.

After a couple of shots with different settings I went with the one with a histogram that looked the most centered of all three colors. The screenshot doesn't say but its the second picture from the right.

Here is the result.

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