jimmuller wrote:
Thank you!
Maybe I'll trade in my Porsche for a McLaren. Hmm, I'd rather have an Aston Martin. Nah, I think I'll keep the Porsche.
Different subject:
I shot a roll of film (UltraMax 400) and have now scanned the negative film with my Z5ii and scanning rig. Converting the negative images into positive is outside my current circle of knowledge. I've read up a bit, tried running Filmvert 1.1.2 but it made my computer freeze solid, twice. I have played with Darktable a little on a Linux machine but I'm not sure what to do with it.
Maybe I should try the Linux version of Filmvert. No, it makes my Linux machine freeze too.
Any pointers, advice, instructions would be welcome!
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If you have Adobe's Lightroom the only good choice is Negative Lab Pro (NLP). Nate (the author of the program) has the
best color profiles/conversions I have ever seen. Even professional labs don't do as accurate conversions - IMO.
For stand alone programs
-FilmLab (mac/win/android)
=Vuescan (actually scanning software which I use for all my film - just not for conversion)
James Markus wrote:
If you have Adobe's Lightroom the only good choice is Negative Lab Pro (NLP). Nate (the author of the program) has the
best color profiles/conversions I have ever seen. Even professional labs don't do as accurate conversions - IMO.
For stand alone programs
-FilmLab (mac/win/android)
=Vuescan (actually scanning software which I use for all my film - just not for conversion)
Darktable is incredible, but it requires a lot of investment to understand how to be effective in it. There are some good written tutorials here. There are also some good YouTube channels that are helpful to learn from, namely Bruce Williams and Boris Hajdukovic.
Darktable is incredible, but it requires a lot of investment to understand how to be effective in it. There are some good written tutorials here. There are also some good YouTube channels that are helpful to learn from, namely Bruce Williams and Boris Hajdukovic.
I agree that Darktable is good for small to medium sized Digital Asset Management, which was it's original purpose. Same with Lightroom, and both morphed into adding imaging functions. Back in the day, Extensis Portfolio was pretty much it for large databases, with addons like Filemaker Pro, MediaGrid, SCC import and export modules etc.GUI is a hard thing to shake. 37 years with a hierarchical GUi made adjusting to Darktable tedious for me. It literally is more graphical than Adobe's software. I'm sure all my linux distros are up to date with the latest version (I remember using V4.1), but I haven't used it in a year or two. My Lr is choking again having passed 500K photos again, that seems to be a choke point for some reason.
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
Ballard wrote:
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
Ballard wrote:
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
In case folks want to see the light brush Ken used (reversed). I think it is the prettiest of the El-Nikkors even though they all seemm to have six elements in 4 groups and 8 iris blades. Left eye in the morning - good night.
Ballard wrote:
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
Okay… we covered my initial feelings on the Zf, but I have to give credit where it’s due… slap a grip on it and it’s quite comfortable and enjoyable with larger lenses. Doesn’t fit well in my bag, but it’s enjoyable in the hand. And I continue to enjoy its SOOC color and sharpness, I could see having a JPEG mode on this camera and treating it like film.
Keeping on the EL train, I have the 105/5.6. Beautiful lens that renders details so damn well. 95mm of tubes. Reproduction ratio is about .4/1. You can see very fine spiderwebs on this spider plant bud.
SiMuMe wrote:
Oh so pretty! Always wondered what can be done with the EL Nikkors and how they mount to F-mount cameras. This is very good.
I've gone through several video tutorials and learned key points I didn't know about negative processing in general and negadoctor in particular. I have also started to know my way around Darktable, still don't know what some of those tools are used for. The popups and user manual don't tell you what they do, only what the controls do.
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James Markus wrote:
I agree that Darktable is good for small to medium sized Digital Asset Management, which was it's original purpose.
The whole import-to-library feature isn't completely intuitive. For example I'd like to remove some images from the active library. I suppose I'll find how if I look hard enough but it isn't where I would guess at first. After playing with an image for a while I'd like to throw away all the changes and re-start, but AFAIK it requires hitting ctrl-z about 600 times and waiting between each hit.
I am not totally satisfied with negadoctor's results. Some images look good, others not so good. That might be my fault as a novice user or it might be because I have not watched Tampopo yet. Still, when I do what I'm supposed to do the results aren't always right. I need to scan-shoot the film again anyway to start with fresh images.
Meanwhile I have verified that despite its 50+ years of age my Nikkormat still works! Next I will put some film in the gifted F and try it. I have been able to see some features of film (at least that particular film) vs. digital. So far my Z pics come out better. I wonder where this road goes...
That's the thing about these sleek cars - they are too close to the ground. My Vette was an inch shorter in height than this beast (46.3 inches versus 47.2 inches high). Your eyeballs are about 6 inches lower still limiting the view drastically.. Even raising the height 5-6 inches makes a huge difference in how far you can see. Not to mention the ease of just getting in and out of the car.
I've gone through several video tutorials and learned key points I didn't know about negative processing in general and negadoctor in particular. I have also started to know my way around Darktable, still don't know what some of those tools are used for. The popups and user manual don't tell you what they do, only what the controls do.
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The whole import-to-library feature isn't completely intuitive. For example I'd like to remove some images from the active library. I suppose I'll find how if I look hard enough but it isn't where I would guess at first. After playing with an image for a while I'd like to throw away all the changes and re-start, but AFAIK it requires hitting ctrl-z about 600 times and waiting between each hit.
I am not totally satisfied with negadoctor's results. Some images look good, others not so good. That might be my fault as a novice user or it might be because I have not watched Tampopo yet. Still, when I do what I'm supposed to do the results aren't always right. I need to scan-shoot the film again anyway to start with fresh images.
Meanwhile I have verified that despite its 50+ years of age my Nikkormat still works! Next I will put some film in the gifted F and try it. I have been able to see some features of film (at least that particular film) vs. digital. So far my Z pics come out better. I wonder where this road goes......Show more →
Saw a documentary on a baker. Everyone thinks his bread is perfect, the best, except him. He does the exact same thing every day, but only 3 to 4 times a year does the bread come out "perfect" in his opinion. Good enough is pretty much all we can expect.
