Scanning Color Negatives With Vuescan
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2023
- Christopher Crawford demonstrates how to scan color negatives with Vuescan software. He uses the Nikon LS-50 (Coolscan V) scanner, but the settings he show you in this tutorial should work fine with most other films scanners.
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Thank you so much for this video! I’m a film photography novice but decided to make the leap into scanning my own film with a second hand Plustek 7200 and VueScan. This tutorial was a game changer!!
I'm excited to adopt your settings - as VueScan in all it's glory is a beast to understand and their settings are a bit cryptic to figure out - and then while running a 120 scan on the Coolscan 8000 for a 20 minute hi-rez scan and seeing a wrong result - you lose your mind after a few times and then settle for something less impressive. Ok -- that was a very long sentence - but I would assume you understand my point. I try to balance my time and frustration thru my wallet in paying for the hi-rez lab scans - lately I've been doing the lab scans. Time to dust off and fire up the 8000 and pur some Gin for a night of scanning town !!
I'm glad you found it useful. I just finished a written version of it, which is a good reference for the list of settings I used.
crawfordphotoschool.com/digital/color-neg-scanning.php
Thanks so much for this !!
I just finished a written version of the tutorial, which is a good reference for the list of settings I used.
crawfordphotoschool.com/digital/color-neg-scanning.php
I always get super green blue negative scans with Vuescan and my V700. The only setting that comes close to normal is auto levels. Nothing else works. Any ideas?
Mine come out like that, too. I think that color is basically an inversion of the brown/orange base color of color negative films. Vuescan just doesn't do a good job of neutralizing that color cast. I they would make color neg films without the orange base; nearly all color negs now are printed by scanning them and making digital prints. Even in photo labs, virtually no one operates optical printing machines anymore. Most labs use Noritsu digital or Fuji Frontier minilabs now. The base color was needed to make the colors look good when printed on RA-4 type color print paper. It is not needed for scanning and digital printing, and having a colorless base like slide films would make negative films MUCH easier to scan!
You'll just have to edit the scans to set the correct color balance, like I did in the video; and yeah, its a lot more work than it should be. I recently tried a photo lab that scans using the Noritsu HS-1800 scanner, which is probably the best 35mm scanner ever made. It produces 4500dpi resolution and gives 16 bit uncompressed tiff files. I was amazed by the quality and color correcting the scans (they do need editing, but are easier to edit then my home scans were) was much easier and faster. I want one of the Noritsu scanners, but it costs $20,000! I think I'm going to have them do all my color neg scans; its only $20 a roll and my time is worth more than that. I have a lot of health problems and don't have a lot of time anymore to fuss with it.
always choose raw, and image not color negative so image won't be inverted
No, that doesn't work well. First off, you need the image inverted. Second, the amount of color correction needed if you invert a scan of the neg that was scanned as a transparency is extreme. Why do all that work with no real benefit?
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