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I'm planning to do some negative scanning with a phone or iPad as a light source. I know I'll have to make some simple tweaks to the color balance of the scans.
by fallinditch 2y ago
I'm planning to do some negative scanning with a phone or iPad as a light source. I know I'll have to make some simple tweaks to the color balance of the scans. I believe it is totally normal to have to make some adjustments to scans, the side by side example in the article seems to show that a white light source is perfectly fine for this work. It's unlikely that an RGB light source would produce scans that don't require any adjustments, so I'm failing to see the benefit.
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- cedricd 2y agoI've scanned a few hundred images using an iPad as the light source. I've tried both a white screen and a bluish screen designed to basically invert the orange cast from the negative. Both seem to work well. The bluish thing works quite well, but it turns out that different rolls need slightly different light color to compensate, so it wasn't worth the trouble. In the end the best result was buying a license for Negative Lab Pro[0] to post process everything [0]: https://www.negativelabpro.com/ https://www.negativelabpro.com/
- fallinditch 2y agoThat's a good recommendation, thank you. It's amazing how complicated film photography has become in the digital era! My next task is to ditch Lightroom/Photoshop subscription. I'm going to give Darktable a go. Edit: aaah, I see NegativeLabPro needs Lightroom, hurrumph...
- kosma 2y agoSeconded. NLP is well worth the money - not just in results, quality, and time saved, but also in finding joy in shooting and scanning color.
- tsaiDavid 2y agoI held out for sometime myself, but NLP is excellent. It works particularly well with an old Pakon I still use as well as using a camera to “scan”.