I'm Still not happy with the results I get in AI Studio IT8.
It would have been a lot easier if Negafix had the follwing enhancements :
1. Bigger dropper : I have a big area available for each color patch, and averaging out more of the pixels would have been far easier and more consistent. Ideally should be able to edit profiles with a high res, multiscan, not only preview.
2. Auto Disable ALL auto correction/contrast/color settings when editing profiles. Even if I'm scanning 48b HDR I can still see I'm fighting auto something, and this gives me inconsitent results. Not sure what I should change, but it makes sense to me that the software should be clever enough to disable everything that can interfere with the editing.
3. Export / Import raw data point to / from excel or similar spreadsheet. I often need to nudge a point just slightly - using the graphical tool to do this without adjusting the points around it proved impossible.
4. More pipets (I needed 6)- with adjustable sizes : See 1.
5. The logic behind the smoothing often fails - and I end up with one channel running along the edges or making strange snake like patterns.
6. More Undo levels in editor. I would make 4-5 adjustements, then do a smooth curve, only to find some value kills the logic (see 5), and the only way to undo is start over.
7. Undo frame position/size changes.
8. I often killed SF is to close the Negafix dialog box after editing a profile. I did this by accident a few times if I wanted to see something behind the floating box. Stack dump said 0xc0000005 @ offset 10097704.
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Like another poster, I fail to understand why the positive equivalent of the IT8 process can not be automated. If I use a standard color chart, like the Macbeth, with controlled (or known light), the process of determining a profile for the film emulsion/scanner combination should be easy to automate, and much more acurate than the graphical editor. I would gladly pay for this feature like I did for the IT8 target and s/w.
SF6 is a great product, but negafix (and batch scanning) needs some work to make it more friendly/predictable/consistant. I can sense a lot of power under the hood, but the automatic gearbox does not do the engine justice
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Sorry for venting so much.
I included a picture to show where I differ from SF on the Reala profile : the SF profile hass to high midtones. The avg RGB valuyes for the 6 grey patches should be ~243,200,160,122,85,52.
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The silverfast profiles looks like this
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Please offer any advise you have. I have lots of work ahead still it seems.
Thanks
Nicol
