Activatedfx wrote: madNbad wrote:Thank you for the assistance! For the most part, the images that I post are straight conversions from NLP. I try to do everything possible to avoid any digital manipulation but sometimes it's necessary. I did find the Previous button in the Tone Curve in Lightroom and was amazed how much just clicking that cleaned up the muddy images. I did switch back to the acrylic sheet instead of the ANR glass. I was getting good results with it and may try the glass at a later date. Here's one that was cleaned up uising the Previous Button.
Big Chair, Beaverton, Oregon
Fujica Super 6, HP-5, Rodinal 1:50
I've always wondered if people do any PP on their film scans. I don't see how you can NOT make at least an "auto levels" adjustment. White balance for color. A little contrast...
But I also get that some folks want the true vintage "film" look without any digital manipulation. eg: faded blacks, greenish tint from some Fuji emulsions, etc.
This is a dilemma that keeps me from shooting more film, because I just end up PP'ing scans until it could have been a digital capture. Even with the Holga. I have a few Lightroom presets that can make basically ANY image look like it was taken with a Holga.
And a well exposed and developed frame from my Fuji GW690II is extremely hard to distinguish from digital, so why bother with all that extra work?
I know why, but it does give me pause when I'm heading out to take some photos! :-)
When I moved fro using the Plustek and Silverfast to using a digital camera, I tried a lot of different versions of conversion software. Most were free and did an acceptable job but either needed a long learning curve or were not intuitive. The worst were the ones that wouldn't let you reset the image after making changes. As the camera setup became more sophisticated, the move to Negative Lab Pro made sense. It's fast, easy to use and offers a lot of options. Most of the B&W images I post are straight NLP conversions using the Linear Gamma preset. It give good tonal range and if the negative needs a little push, it's easy enough to do with the NLP sliders. I'm not sure what happened with this latest batch. These were the first ones I scanned uing ANR glass and there may have been reflections. I went back to the acrylic sheet, have two rolls to develop from the same camera and it will be interesting to see the results!
Oct 12, 2025 at 01:29 PM
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