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Copying color negatives with camera

Started Oct 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
leorimkus
leorimkus Senior Member • Posts: 1,731
Re: Copying color negatives with camera

I'm also working on this recently.
As for hardware part - old slide duplicators work amazingly well. They are available on
ebay for cheap. Just one problem - You need a full flame camera to use them. Otherwise Your scans also will be cropped. Or use duplicators, that mount on a lens.
I just point it to a wirelessly controlled flash and shoot RAW.
IQ is better than any scanner I've ever used - best of them was Nikon Coolscan IV ED. Resolution of Nikon D600 far exceeds the resolution of my films - but have to admit, that I wasn't using high end equipment when I was shooting film.
I process RAWs in Lightroom. Basic thing is to invert the curve - move end points to the opposite sides. It works nice with BW and slides. A bit more complicated with color negatives. I found that LR color ballance slider doesn't go enough to the left to achieve decent result, so I added 80B color correction filter to my slide duplicator. Best color ballance is achieved by clicking on some point, which should be neutral gray. The only thing I couldn't solve for now - redish shadows. Can be corrected adjusting r, g and b curves independently, but it takes too much time. Still didn't find a way how to include it to a preset.

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