Im keen to hear anyone else's experiences with the following. 3yrs ago I switched from shooting Trannies to colour neg mainly 160 nps/npc(35mm) This was partly due to changes in my work direction (shooting mainly stock now) and the fact that I live in deepest Somerset and e6 is pain/hassle to get developed.
I want to know before doing this if anyone else has experiences or tips on scanning negs,I scan in 16bit as a positive and invert the files in photoshop and correct the colour balance in levels.This part is fine except shadows always seem on the red side plus the images always seem grainy especially in the shadows but Im not sure that is not just down to the file sizes Im having to scan to or just the side effect of scanning negatives. Certainly scanning provia is much less hassle but I still have a large archive that needs to be scanned. Any comments would be interesting.
Hi,
Do you not scan as colour neg. in the Minolta utility?
I've been using the Minolta Dimage range for years, if you set the output size and resolution in the software, they are superb. An A4 output from 35mm at 360dpi (175 line screen) will only be around 30 Mb as a TIF CMYK.
Cheers, John
P.S. Try getting E6 processed on the Isle of Wight!
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