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Lossless image inversion of RAF files for film scanning? (C1, SilkyPix...)

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Re: Lossless image inversion of RAF files for film scanning? (C1, SilkyPix...)

graystubble wrote:

Thank you for this; it changes my life.

Big words but glad it's helpful.

I'm on a Mac, and using Capture One Express 23, so I ran this command in Terminal.app to copy the files to my user Styles directory:

rsync -av \
/Applications/Capture\ One\ 23.app/Contents/Packages/CH/Styles/Film\ Scanning/*/*.costyle \
~/Library/Application\ Support/Capture\ One/Styles/

Then I can select them like any other style.

Good tip. I don't expect to need more than the inverted image as a starting point. Is there anything interesting in the other styles?

This approach is not perfect. for example, "Color Negative Generic 03" wants to flip things horizontally. Maybe this just means I'm scanning the negatives upside down?

The style files can be opened with a text editor. I'm sure you could remove the flipping from styles that included it.

Regardless, this gives me another solution besides Darktable (unhappy with the UI, UX, ergonomics) or FilmLab (unhappy with software quality, technical details, edge cases, tweak ability).

I've considered writing my own program leveraging libraw, but I have a day job already...

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