Creating Filmm Negative Profiles with Negafix

[MikeJones]

Hi Ian,

I refere to your Tutorial 3b,
"Using Negafix".

I must admit than when you have a film that exactly matches one of the new 120 profiles the results are fantastic.

However as you guessed things get a tad pear shaped for me when there is not a profile available for your film.

On page 5 of the referenced tutorial, you give some help with creating a film profile. You state in the last sentence of the first paragraph to drag the curves until the desired results are achieved.

For me I am not to sure when the desired results are achived? Being new to the field of creating film profiles I need some more pointers to set me off in the right direction to achive the desired results.

Do you have a nother more detailed Tutorial in the making on this subject?
Could you point me toward another reference source to get through this subject area?
Or is it possible for you to answer this question within the scope of the forum?

Thanks again

Mike Jones

[ilyons]

Mike,

If struggling to make your own then I would suggest that you try for the correct profile. There is a thread in the forum somewhere where LasrSoft are asking for films types that we the user think should be supported. I think they are keen to cover as many as possible. Search out the message (title should provide a good clue) and send them the details. See

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Ian

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[Wallyk]

As an additional factor in the Negafix film lists it would be helpful if the list showed the actual number which appears ON the film. Is Kodak PX 5062 TriMax 100 or Kodak CP100 5094 is what? It dosn't seem that either Fugi or Kodak show these numbers in thir websites. One frequently either didnt take the origional negative or dosnt remember the exact type used. Perhaps someone has a referance that shows film numbers to film types.

[ilyons]

On 2002-01-19 18:56, Wallyk wrote:
As an additional factor in the Negafix film lists it would be helpful if the list showed the actual number which appears ON the film. Is Kodak PX 5062 TriMax 100 or Kodak CP100 5094 is what? It dosn't seem that either Fugi or Kodak show these numbers in thir websites. One frequently either didnt take the origional negative or dosnt remember the exact type used. Perhaps someone has a reference that shows film numbers to film types.

Unfortunately many of the those numbers are used to specify the region of manufacture, and host of other data. You cannot even be sure that a specific film in the USA wil have the same name in Germany, france, UK, Australia, etc.

[angelman]

We are scanning in move film stock (which we are using in a stills camera and getting processed in the same bath as the movie stock) and need a neg profile. Its Kodak 5245 movie stock. We havent purchased silverfast yet but are looking into it. If we have non standard stock such as this can we send a sample to you for profiling or can you give us more detailed instructions on how to create a profile for it?

[maxima]

Creating customized profiles for whatever negatives you are scanning is easy, but just takes some time. First, flip through all, and I mean all, negative profiles offered by SilverFast and choose the one which gives you the best results to start with. Then, click the button in the NegaFix window which brings you to the expert dialog. Begin by adjusting all three RGB or CMY color sliders in the histogram, both shadow and highlight sliders for each of the three colors. Once you have the colors accurate, click the tab on top for the curves dialog. Click the pencil icon that allows you to write curve adjustments. Adjust the curve points until an average exposure is represented in the preview. You do not want to try to make the exposure perfect at this point, just average. You should do your fine tuning inside of a program like Photoshop. Once you are done with curves, click on the icon below that allows you to save the new profile you have created, under a new name given by you. You can then access this profile in NegaFix under Other, Other, and then the name of your profile.[/b]