Why I stopped scanning my negatives... and started photographing them
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2020
- Scanning has always played a big part in my love/hate relationship with the shooting film process and to be honest the Epson V600 really didn't do much to help the situation.
The clunky software and the slow going always put me off scanning and more often that not I ended up with a scanning backlog.
But recently I started photographing (or DSLR scanning) my negatives with the aid of a light pad and have been really happy with the results.
Here is a quick look at my workflow as I scan a black and white negative from my Mamiya RB67.
Not only do the negatives look good, but by tethering to Lightroom the workflow is quick and simple.
Add in the Negative Lab Pro plugin and what's not to love.
www.negativelabpro.com/
I recently inherited a load of old negatives from when my family lived in India & I would like to thank you for showing how you copied your negatives, I don't have a white board so I just downloaded one on my iPad and that sufficed. Every negative is coming out perfect.
My gosh. That is the best looking video I have ever seen on UA-cam. Outstanding.
Thanks for showing us how it is done. In some of the pictures(.004 and .005) if you look closely, you'll see that you had at least two parallel purple lines from your Epson; that's enough to drive one around the bend. Great video and good to see that Negative Lab Pro is easy to use and an efficient part of your work flow.
There are a lot of people on youtube talking about digitizing film, then they show their images and it's garbage. Your film images area a joy to look at. Thank you for this video.
Fully agree, I'm using Canon 90d with a macro lens, I really like the overall quality and a full control of the process of inverting negatives
Regarding the line:
Thank you for your experience and knowledge.
Excellent, clear and concise video. Superb images.
I gave up using flatbed scanner. The focusing is a major issue for me with medium format film. Now I made my own film holder, light box, using godox to trigger flash and my DSLR. Much better and more consistant result for me.
Brilliant tip! Well executed AB 👊🏻
Thanks Adj thats really helpful, Loved Cornwall as a kid, used to stay at Maker heights Maker camp an old army barracks run by volunteers for little buggers from London.. will have to return one day.
Excellent, thanks for that! Will give it a try.
Hello! Violet (colored stripes in the image, this is dust on the mirror or matrix (sensor) of the scanner.
Very Interesting. Thank you for posting. May God Bless.
Thanks for showing your pain of using a scanner. I'm just starting, and rethinking of using one.
I photograph them with iphone 11 promax and air drop them into ipad 12.9 pro and edit with Affinity photo app. Fast work flow and almost pleasant with superb results. I use the light pad but then moved to the small lomography smart phone film scanner to back light the negatives but i use the phone sideways across the hole so i get a landscape pic of the negative if that makes sense.
If the lines are perfectly straight, it could be a tiny spec of dust on your sensor. When I received my new Epson V850, it was super dusty inside. I had to open it and clean it and even after I got it clean, I stopped using it and switched to a Pakon F-135 plus and then a Noritsu HS-1800.
I also switched from the v750 to the DSLR scanning. It is excellent for black & white. However, I do find the colour produced by negative lab pro less favourable as the Silverfast when im using my Epson scanner
Thank you so much for solving my problems. From a fellow photographer. btw which light pad model did you purchase?
Curious if you splashed out on a name brand light pad (b&h sells a like a $200USD Kaiser one) or just a cheap one off Amazon?