Can I get more control over my scanning software?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:02 pm
I used to use a Leaf Volare and a Sinar Camera setup I made to "scan" my film images. I started just doing chromes, but after a while I figured out a way to shoot negatives this way. Since the camera had no way to know I was shooting film with an orange cast, my workaround for this was to get a "grey" exposure on an unexposed section of the film, either between frames or from the beginning or end of the film. I would then use the cameras "make neutral" tool to make and save the setting, readjust my exposure and shoot all the film from the same roll or rolls. I would then invert the image in Photoshop, make any minor adjustments and move to the next image. This provided me with a consistent output time and time again with only minimal adjustments required between shots.
I guess my suggestion or question is that can you possibly make it so I can use the area between the frames to make a setting I can then use for that particular roll or rolls of film as a starting point and make color correction from a standard setting? Possibly save the setting somehow. Or is there a way I can do this now? As it stands, since the area is black the software is not sure what I'm trying to accomplish and always wants to adjust the image.
I don't know if this is even possible, but it has always been an option I wish scanning software had. It would provide me with the ability to make a setting for a particular film processed by a particular lab on any given day and allow me to make one starting point for that particular roll or rolls of film. I often have a roll or rolls of film shot at the same exposure and would love to be able to have a more stable starting point that does not have any variables to it.
Thanks,
Larry
I guess my suggestion or question is that can you possibly make it so I can use the area between the frames to make a setting I can then use for that particular roll or rolls of film as a starting point and make color correction from a standard setting? Possibly save the setting somehow. Or is there a way I can do this now? As it stands, since the area is black the software is not sure what I'm trying to accomplish and always wants to adjust the image.
I don't know if this is even possible, but it has always been an option I wish scanning software had. It would provide me with the ability to make a setting for a particular film processed by a particular lab on any given day and allow me to make one starting point for that particular roll or rolls of film. I often have a roll or rolls of film shot at the same exposure and would love to be able to have a more stable starting point that does not have any variables to it.
Thanks,
Larry