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scanning film with sd quattro

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Questions thread
OP Artemka New Member • Posts: 6
Re: scanning film with sd quattro

D Cox wrote:

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.

I'm familiar with Grain Aliasing from this article. Ironically, the author is an owner of a Scanwit scanner. As far as I remember there was no real solution to the problem, only suggestions. Things like changing the resolution / defocusing the scanner etc.

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).

In this case when inverting a non-linear file, doesn't the gamma get inverted as well? What I mean is, this would slightly mess up the tonality of the image, right?

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