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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

Snapshott wrote:

I just want to throw an idea out there for the color filtration. Couldn't you try an older color enlarger? It would have a light source, a color filter head that you can dial in the amounts of magenta, cyan and yellow. Then you have a negative holder that is clamped in and perfectly straight. Then bellows then an enlarger lens you don't need. Remove the lens, rig up an attachment for you camera a lens and you're pretty close to what you need. I would think you could pick up an old used color enlarger pretty cheap.

Any ideas if this would work?

The idea is doable, though I don't have access to an enlarger. They look fairly inexpensive off ebay. I would prefer to use my flash system since it's less space, and the light is stronger than the kind on an enlarger head.

I noticed that on ebay they have color analyzers that are fairly inexpensive, though I wonder how useful they are since a.) The light source I have is most likely not going to be equivalent to the kind in an enlarger head, b.) They are calibrated for photographic paper which is not the same as a digital sensor.

I think right now the system I got of using the RGB histogram in Silkypix and/or Rawtherapee and making adjustments accordingly has given me results that I could be happy with.

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