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I'm getting back into film photography after being in digital for the last decade or so. In the past, I had taken my film to Costco and just had them scan it... but that's not a viable option anymore. What I'd like to do is: 1) Send my negs to the most inexpensive lab that I can (that will do push/pull processing upon request) 2) Scan the negs myself To scan the negs, I'd like to use my DSLR (5D Mark III). My initial attempts at this will be done with my Pixel 3 as a backlight, or an iPad, with a 50mm 1.4 and a macro tube. This brings me to my two questions. 1) What is the best inexpensive online lab that will do push/pull processing and send my negs back to me in neat little 6 frame strips? 2) How in the hell do I properly color correct my digitized negatives? Everything that I've read about converting film negatives to positives with this technique seems very time consuming. Is there a way to automate it, maybe with Silverfast? Or does Silverfast absolutely need a scanner? I'd like to avoid buying a scanner, as they are expensive, and I don't want to spend over an hour scanning 12 negatives.
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Blackhawk posted:Negative lab pro plug in for lightroom seems to do a good job inverting colour neggies.
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Jan 31, 2019 19:13
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VelociBacon posted:How much better is this than just doing it in PS?
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I like Cinestill. Is that allowed here? Please don't hurt my feelings.
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Nov 9, 2019 22:24
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Those all look nice. In my experience, film is softer than what we're used to shooting digital. Just lean into that. And old 50mm f1.4 lenses are sharp, but they can't hold a candle to modern glass when it comes to sharpness. Your photos are good. What are you using to scan? Edit: Oh, I just saw that you're scanning them at the lab at 6mp. That would explain part of your dissatisfaction at "high resolution" and with the color balance. Do you have a DSLR that you could use to "scan" the negatives? It's kind of a pain-in-the-butt process to get set up, but once you do, it's fast and the results are amazing. Sneeze Party fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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NicelyNice posted:Cheers, I may pick up a Plustek 8100 in the future - I kind of like the zen feeling of just getting scans back from the 1-hour photo and not worrying about editing photos, but it's a bit obnoxious to at the whim of whoever is manning the scanner that day (the hardware itself is apparently nice, a Fuji SP3000, which they let me see but not touch). The Fuji SP3000 can do, I believe, roughly 20 megapixel scans. At least 14, but I think 20. Maybe even higher than that? You might be able to get the staff to look into that, if they know you and they're cool and they're not busy.
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