Thanks. I'm really liking caffenol. Pretty easy and great results so far.
Now, I just received the Valoi Easy35. It's kind of like the Nikon ES-2. It ships with a bunch of tubes and varying lengths. It has a built-in light source which is rechargeable and very bright. Below are my first attempts at scanning using my Sony A1 and the Laowa 90mm macro. I'm also using Negative Lab Pro as a Lightroom Classic plug-in to do the conversion. It has a lot of options but these are at the default. I didn't realize but I need to use the plugin to do further adjustments. Trying to do them Lightroom, well, everything is backwards (negative). However, easy enough to convert the file to a TIFF or JPG and then use Lightroom as normal. I need to do a better job of making sure I use a blower on the negatives. I have several negatives to use as test cases to nail down the workflow.
Overall, the process is pretty quick to 'scan' a roll with my camera. Oh and these images were shot on Portra 400
rji2goleez wrote:
Thanks. I'm really liking caffenol. Pretty easy and great results so far.
Now, I just received the Valoi Easy35. It's kind of like the Nikon ES-2. It ships with a bunch of tubes and varying lengths. It has a built-in light source which is rechargeable and very bright. Below are my first attempts at scanning using my Sony A1 and the Laowa 90mm macro. I'm also using Negative Lab Pro as a Lightroom Classic plug-in to do the conversion. It has a lot of options but these are at the default. I didn't realize but I need to use the plugin to do further adjustments. Trying to do them Lightroom, well, everything is backwards (negative). However, easy enough to convert the file to a TIFF or JPG and then use Lightroom as normal. I need to do a better job of making sure I use a blower on the negatives. I have several negatives to use as test cases to nail down the workflow.
Overall, the process is pretty quick to 'scan' a roll with my camera. Oh and these images were shot on Portra 400...Show more →
Nice! I just convert/export them as jpeg or tiff (usually jpeg unless i really messed up on exposure) and edit as normal in lightroom. So don’t have to deal w things being backward.
Desmolicious wrote:
Nice! I just convert/export them as jpeg or tiff (usually jpeg unless i really messed up on exposure) and edit as normal in lightroom. So don’t have to deal w things being backward.
Looking down the Queen's Garden Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park.
Nikon FM2n, AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.8S, Kentmere Pan 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes. Three individual black and white frames shot through Tiffen #25 Red, #58 Green, and #47 Blue filters, respectively, then combined using GIMP to create a trichrome color image.
The one thing that negativelabpro does if you have a lot of blue in the scene - sky, water etc - is it will really auto warm it up. That's when I switch the WB in nlp to None. And adjust as needed in LightRoom.
First roll shot, developed and scanned on my own. However, since I had color film in my Leica, these were shot on the Canon Canonet QL17 GIII. Cinestill XX (shot at ISO 250), Developed in Caffenol Delta Std (15 min) and scanned with Valoi Easy35.
The results were grainer than I thought so these were also run through Topaz Photo AI.
rji2goleez wrote:
No, they're not grainy any more because these images were run through Topaz Photo AI. I will look into ORWO. Thanks for the suggestion!
That interesting since you have been getting such good results with the Kentmere 400 in Caffenol, I would expect the Double X to have finer grain or at least match the Kentmere. I used 5222 for most of the summer of 2020, developed it in HC-110 Dilution B and got pretty good results.
rji2goleez wrote:
No, they're not grainy any more because these images were run through Topaz Photo AI. I will look into ORWO. Thanks for the suggestion!
Ahhhhh I was wondering why they looked like they came out of an M9M!
The Valoi Easy35 looks so much better than my rig because of the roller film feed. The worst part of my scanning kit is the film tray loading.
ottokbre wrote:
Ahhhhh I was wondering why they looked like they came out of an M9M!
The Valoi Easy35 looks so much better than my rig because of the roller film feed. The worst part of my scanning kit is the film tray loading.
So far, I've really enjoyed the Valoi Easy35. I included the 'brush' attachment but still blow the negatives before they enter the chamber. Once you have focus set, you can cruise through a roll of 36 in no time.
