federico9001
30-Jan-2012, 17:31
http://www.flickr.com/photos/castorscan/6766674429/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/castorscan
This Massimo Vitali's dyptich consists of 2 pictures from 11x14 inches
Kodak Portra color negatives, to be printed 180x225 cm (71x89") each one
(the final dyptich size is about 180 x 500 cm).
When the photolab processed the negatives it didn't fix the second one
correctly: after some months we found out that the negative was
completely damaged,
it lost a lot of contrast, and on the whole surface it was full of
sposts and stripes of several different colors, magenta, red, etc...
We decided to restore it working digitally.
I did n2 scans on my Dainippon Screen 8060p Mk II drum scanner, each one
was 1.4 Gb; I matched perfectly all the colors of the negatives, because
they were completely different.
Then I corrected every color spot and stripe.
The final file was about 2.7 Gb. We printed it at the world famous
Grieger Lab in Dusseldorf; the technicians at the lab told us that they
never saw before a file of higher quality from a color film:
the LightJet print that came out was absolutely extraordinary.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/castorscan
This Massimo Vitali's dyptich consists of 2 pictures from 11x14 inches
Kodak Portra color negatives, to be printed 180x225 cm (71x89") each one
(the final dyptich size is about 180 x 500 cm).
When the photolab processed the negatives it didn't fix the second one
correctly: after some months we found out that the negative was
completely damaged,
it lost a lot of contrast, and on the whole surface it was full of
sposts and stripes of several different colors, magenta, red, etc...
We decided to restore it working digitally.
I did n2 scans on my Dainippon Screen 8060p Mk II drum scanner, each one
was 1.4 Gb; I matched perfectly all the colors of the negatives, because
they were completely different.
Then I corrected every color spot and stripe.
The final file was about 2.7 Gb. We printed it at the world famous
Grieger Lab in Dusseldorf; the technicians at the lab told us that they
never saw before a file of higher quality from a color film:
the LightJet print that came out was absolutely extraordinary.