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scanning film with sd quattro

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Questions thread
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Re: scanning film with sd quattro

Artemka wrote:

These images look very fine grained for 35mm!

The sax player is FP4 film and the landscape is Panatomic-X.

It is worth reading up on Grain Aliasing. Low resolution, whether in traditional printing or this digitizing, can make grain appear coarser.

So, as far as I understand, you don't bother with linear workflow, you simply invert the DNG and tweak the levels/curves?

Yup. No two negs are identical anyway. The black and white points vary a lot. And sometimes you do want areas of solid black (very rarely areas of solid white).

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