I have a strip of 120 negatives waiting to be cut and sleeved. It's been a bit of a busy week but today is dark and rainy so for fun I decided to rescan them and try some pf the suggestions from when they were first posted. My current setup is a Sony A7CII using a FE90 2.8 Macro. The negative carrier is a Negative Supply Pro Carrier 120 MK2 fitted with the full border cassette. I hadn't changed any of the settings on the camera or in Negative Lab Pro but when I started to adjust the negatives position for capture, areas outside of the negative itself were a bright blue. Previously, it has always been gray. Then, when I started the conversion process, areas outside of the negative turned red with a blue border around the negative. Once the conversion was completed, the colors were gone. There wasn't any tinting to the negative. It might have been a one time thing but it was certainly surprising
Also, I wanted to thank Heron. I switched from the Linear Gamma profile to Lab Standard and the results do look better.
Took the camera off of the stand, went through the menu, clipping is turned off, zebra is turned off. Checked a bunch of other settings, put the camera back on the stand, slid the negatives in and the colors were gone. I think the camera was looking for some attention.
madNbad wrote:
That makes the most sense. I'll pull the camera off the stand and go through the menu.
It sounds like Lightroom's warning.
In the develop module, you can find "Show Clipping" under the view menu. It should have a hotkey ("J" on Windows), and while you're in the develop module you can also click or hover the small black boxes at the top left and right of the histogram to toggle or momentarily show shadow or highlight clipping.
OffTrail wrote:
It sounds like Lightroom's warning.
In the develop module, you can find "Show Clipping" under the view menu. It should have a hotkey ("J" on Windows), and while you're in the develop module you can also click or hover the small black boxes at the top left and right of the histogram to toggle or momentarily show shadow or highlight clipping.
Thanks for the tip. Checked it and it's off but there's always a good chance it was inadvertently turned on.
I found it very difficult to feed film through the 120 borderless setup. I would need to disassemble the holder shroud and use tools to feed the film through the narrow gate before the take up knob. How do you accomplish this?
bwcolor wrote:
I found it very difficult to feed film through the 120 borderless setup. I would need to disassemble the holder shroud and use tools to feed the film through the narrow gate before the take up knob. How do you accomplish this?
Clip off the corners of the feed end of the roll. this will help get it started through the gate. Make sure there aren't any burrs from the drying clips. Occasionally I'll have to trim off some of the feed end of the negatives to ensure it'll engage with the roller. I fought with the ANR glass for a while, managed to get it to fit by loosening the screws on the cassette but went back to the acrylic sheet. I also have the 120 Basic Carrier for films that refuse to feed through the Pro Carrier.
