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Copying color negatives with camera

Started Oct 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: Copying color negatives with camera

AdHoc007 wrote:

3) By a long long way the best results will be obtained by pre-filtering the lightsource in such a way as to get a capture that matches the native colour characteristics of the cameras sensor and accounts for the colour temperature of the lightsource and the films mask characteristics. This is pretty tricky to do, involving quite a bit of testing but the differences in the final result are like chalk and cheese and the resulting files are far easier to edit.

So I would probably be better off with filtering the flash head with some gel filters that can color correct for the mask? What kind of filters? I've glanced at some color enlarger heads on ebay and they seem to use a combination of yellow, magenta and cyan filters to balance out the light. Are those kinds of gels sufficient?

I suggest a colour correction filter such as an 80A.

Try Lee filters for an acetate one.

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