Forgive me right now, as I don't have a scanner, so I had to backlight these with a phone and take a macro pic. The little grid bits are pixels on the screen. Both shot with HP5+ and a Nikon F3 with a 300 2.8 w/ 1.4 tele
Supposedly colorperfect plugin for PS works wonders with film scans. I don't use it (no issues with my scanner, built in profiles) however other film shooters on another forum swear by it. Just an fyi. If I every get back into MF film and scanning with a flatbed, I would probably do the same.
First roll of film I've shot for 10 years, first time with a film SLR. My great aunt Ev's Contax 139Q, a roll of expired Fuji Super HQ 200 from my dad's late cousin, and my own Contax Zeiss 50/1.7.
My dad's cousin recently sent me a cache of gear that had been used by her late mother and late sister, both of whom were avid photographers. In the box, I found a roll of her sister's film. Obviously, I had to shoot it, mostly family snapshots around Christmas.
From what I understand, Fuji Super HQ 200 is not a great film. Even so, I was pretty surprised at the amount of grain. In the low light shots, it almost looks like there's chroma noise. I'm not sure if it's the film or the scanner used by my local photo lab, but it left an impression.
Jon Buffington wrote:
Supposedly colorperfect plugin for PS works wonders with film scans. I don't use it (no issues with my scanner, built in profiles) however other film shooters on another forum swear by it. Just an fyi. If I every get back into MF film and scanning with a flatbed, I would probably do the same.
I played today a bit with trail version of colorperfect and with some imagemagic negative conversion scripts but without success. I created linear scan of single frame (being careful not to include black holder areas and include some of the orange mask) but it seems that TIF files created by Imacon Color Scan software are at odds with both tools. I was not able to convert negative back to something even remotely resembling positive. I will try this weekend with frames from other film type. In the meantime here is another Fuji G617 Ektar scan.
