CH .............. are you suggesting that scanning colour negatives with
a flat bed scanner is preferable to using a dedicated film scanner? My
Nikon Super Coolscan 900 ED has always done sterling service with 35mm
b/w and colour, both negs and slides, and 6x7 m/f negatives and I have a
difficult time believing that a flat bed scanner could do better.
jh
On 5/4/2015 9:09 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
All old negatives have certain amount of color fading, it may not easy
to restore the color with optical printing process. Scanning the negs
with a good flatbed is the best way, my Epson 4870 do a fine job with
MF negatives.
http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/1994-01_10s.jpg (Bronica, SQA with 645
back, 150mm?).
Scaning color negs with digital camera is difficult to get the color
right. After hundreds of scans I still prefer to use scanner.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Forget all the nonsense about scanning and the kludgy efforts to do
so. It
will look like crap. Get real optical RA-4 color prints made from the
negs. Scan the prints on a flatbed if you must but at least get real
(optical / RA4) prints made. Otherwise, the quality will never be
there,
short of a drum scan.
I absolutely agree! Have glossy prints made, though.
It is probably Kodak Portra 400 film. This film produced very nice
skintones, but usually needed to be overexposed a tiny bit. that would
help bring skintones up and provide good background separation, what
it means is that the negatives are a little more dense in the
highlights than what most scanners or digitizing processes can deal
with. Skintones will all turn Pepto-Bismo pink as a result. If he was
an old-timer, he was likely still shooting it like he shot Vericolor,
and derated the film by up to a full stop.
If you do decide to digitize them yourself, do it with a good scanner
with transparancy adaptor. But I think you are much better served if
you have a lab process them to small prints and even have them do the
scanning themselves.
I really doubt that the photographer would have taken all that many
pictures. Most of us in that era topped out at 10 rolls of film.
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