Morfeus wrote:
I scanned two rolls 135 Ektar 100 yesterday. The slight green cast is on every frame from 72 frames. But this is easily correctable with the white balance in LR/ACR (see my last post in the Leica thread).
Martin, I do not know the Epson software, but do you have the possibilty in scanning 48bit RGB tiffs with NO auto-something, just negative to positive conversion and setting the white and black point manually for every frame?
No Martin, I do not talk about the automatic negative/positive conversion in terms of film base. I mean things like white balance, white and black points, exposure, gradiaton curves etc. For sure there is some automatic profile that can be switched of. It is much better to do those things in LR/ACR/Photoshop. Scanning RAW is really a PITA, but I don't mean that.
No, I'm in "professional mode", but I use the auto-button (top left under "Adjustments"). The "color restoration" option is involved somtimes, and I suspect that it f*cks up everything.
I'll do some research before I scan the next color roll, which currently is in the camera. But first some FP4+ that I shot today, that's hanging to dry right now.
Makten wrote:
I was in the other end of town. Not one single shot from the marathon either. I really, really hate to shoot among people.
The shots from the lake (with the small tree too) was in very warm, late afternoon haze. The "dusk" shot was obviously shot at dusk!
How do you use the scanner software? I run it in some sort of auto-everything mode, but I usually lower contrast a bit since it wants to clip the highlights too much.
I use it in "professional" mode but generally, the "auto exposure" adjustment gets it right. If its not exactly what I want, I tweak the tone correction and possibly the histogram adjustment. If I make any other adjustments after these, it's usually in PS.
One thing about scanning color negs is that the histogram will appear that you are clipping a lot at both ends. That's normal and if you attempt to capture all that extra information, wacky things will happen with your color. That might be what's going on with your scans. You might try a test where you scan without making your histogram adjustments and see what the color looks like. Most of what is being clipped is not actual image information but film base stuff.
Here is a straight scan with no adjustments made in the pro mode. Film is Kodak 160VC shot with my old Rolleicord.
Tariq is probably right; the clipping adjustments will screw color balance! But I haven't done that with my first color rolls, and they are also a bit off.
Now, if I don't do anything with the clipping, the contrast is way too high, so I don't know how to deal with this.
I think in general most people think, that they should get an almost perfect image out of the scanner. That attempt screws everything up. A good scan looks totally boring, comparable to a raw file from a digital camera. Thats fine, cause all the information is in the file, nothing clipped or distorted by the mediocre PP features of the scanning software.
Morfeus wrote:
I think in general most people think, that they should get an almost perfect image out of the scanner. That attempt screws everything up. A good scan looks totally boring, comparable to a raw file from a digital camera. Thats fine, cause all the information is in the file, nothing clipped or distorted by the mediocre PP features of the scanning software.
I know, but I don't know how to get that boring file that I would really want. When I scan B&W, I do it as a color positive which gives me exactly (or close to) what the scanner sees. But with color negatives, I have to rely on the software.
Tariq Gibran wrote:
I think the Epson software performs an auto exposure correction with each preview.
Yes it does, but if you use the zoom option, it works pretty good regarding the exposure. Colors is a different story, apparently.
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How about some pictures in this picture thread? Two from a few rolls back; very expired Ilford FP4+ developed in Fomadon R09 1:40 (13 minutes and agitation once a minute) with the 105/2.4 on P67II. Both at f/4 and handheld as usual.
Makten wrote:
Yes it does, but if you use the zoom option, it works pretty good regarding the exposure. Colors is a different story, apparently.
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How about some pictures in this picture thread? Two from a few rolls back; very expired Ilford FP4+ developed in Fomadon R09 1:40 (13 minutes and agitation once a minute) with the 105/2.4 on P67II. Both at f/4 and handheld as usual.
But first some FP4+ that I shot today, that's hanging to dry right now.
