JJC Film Digitizing Adapter // Pls confirm 10...10.5 cm working distance (for the Laowa 65/2.8)

FTOG wrote:

Tim van der Leeuw wrote:

FTOG wrote:

Tim van der Leeuw wrote:

I photographed the negatives with the camera tethered and images imported directly into CaptureOne so that some basic colour corrections were instantly applied, but everything in editing is the other way round so I need to be a better solution for this!

(To raise the shadows I need to lower the whites...)

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Hey Tim, just came across your note here.

I've recently faced the same obstacle and found a Capture One forum post from 2020, which shows a hack how to unlock B&W, colour and slide film modes normally reserved for a "Cultural Heritage" version of C1. All that needs to be done is insert one (or two, depending on whether you want to "bake in" flipping) lines into a style file. The following is a quote from the forum post, which I've confirmed to be working with C1 22 Pro :

If you want to have this enabled on your style you can add the following line in your text editor to the end of the style. [note: as far as I can tell the location of the text string is irrelevant]

<E K="TechnicalProcessingMethod" V="2"/>

V=1 is B&W
V=2 is Colour
V=3 is Slide Film

Also a flip function exists too:

<E K="Flip" V="1"/>

V=1 is Mirror on Horizontal
V=2 is Mirror on Vertical

I'm not quite sure of all the processes that go on under the bonnet. E.g. B&W film processing mode doesn't automatically convert into B&W (which gives more control to the B&W conversion). But certainly the mode inverts the image - no need for a criss-cross curve tool - and, hallelujah!, all sliders work in their ordinary directions.

After playing around a bit with this, I think I might actually prefer to use the method described in the article on Medium which I linked -- basically: invert the curves, then fix colours with the levels (there's a bit more to it than that but that's the basics).

Appreciate the feedback. For colour it might be a very different story - especially because of colour tweaking. For my exclusively B&W Film photography, the hack is all that I needed.

For the B&W negatives that I have scanned so far, it works very well indeed!