Timeline for Scanning negative 35mm: color accuracy, color balance, film bias
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| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:47 | history | edited | mattdm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2019 at 4:36 | comment | added | Jonathan Edmund Townes | Vuescan is the same in this regard. If the scanning selection includes anything outside the film base, i.e. the film holder, Vuescan will choose the darkest surface. My film holders are darker than the frame around the exposures. As soon as I draw the selection area around only the film base and image, the color of the negative or slide is spot on. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 1:08 | comment | added | Stan | Are you judging your results under standard viewing conditions compatible with your workflow? What do you mean by "right." Photographic colour reproduction is an approximation of sensory perception and cannot be "accurate" with such observer subjectivity bias. What are you comparing your images to? | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 0:30 | comment | added | scottbb♦ | Got a link for that video? | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 0:27 | comment | added | Goetzfilm | I know this is an old thread. Was just watching a video on YouTube by Nick Carver and he said that when scanning using NegaFix, you have to set the scan area inside the black. If you select outside the exposed frame, the colours are all wonky, but much proved results if you follow that rule. Apparently it is buried in the Ai Studio documentation somewhere. Hopefully that gets you better results. | |
| S Apr 11, 2017 at 16:37 | history | suggested | lightproof | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 11:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhotos/status/837269911340728321 | ||
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:20 | vote | accept | user61134 | ||
| Feb 28, 2017 at 23:43 | comment | added | Knob Scratcher | You should ask your lab to digitize your negatives (of your prints) and see how accurately THEY'VE scanned them, and compare them to your own scans (on your monitor); this'd be a first order calibration of your system. Having yours and their scan side by side in PS, you could record an "Action" that corrects your scans in accordance with the lab's, then use that action for all subsequent scans made for this film on your equipment. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 8:05 | answer | added | meklarian | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 17:19 | comment | added | Crowley | Have you tried to scan developped pictures? If you are willing to sacrifice some material, try to get picture of defined colour palette, have it developped and complare results (both onscreen and print) to the palette. Maybe several times using different cartriges and have it developped separately. Chemical colour development is really, really hard work and I think colour film was not meant to be scanned at all. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | user61134 | Well, it is not. I use Datacolor Spyder5PRO for calibration. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 13:33 | comment | added | Michael C | How do you know it is the scanner and not your monitor? | |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 10:23 | history | asked | user61134 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |