ColorNeg: NegPos successor for colour neg scanning
There's been quite a bit of discussion in the past on this forum about NegPos, David Dunthorn's Photoshop plug-in for accurate handling of scanned colour negatives (and b&w).
David has now released a next-generation product called ColorNeg. You can find it here: http://www.c-f-systems.com/Plug-ins.html. As a committed NegPos user, I've only spent an hour or so playing with it, but if anything, I would say it gives even better colour conversions than NegPos did. The user interface is simplified, while keeping all the advanced functions still within reach.
If you are a registered NegPos user, ColorNeg will share your existing licence key. If you are not a NegPos user, and you shoot colour negative film, now might be a good time to check it out.
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BTW: the essential step to getting a good conversion (inversion) is getting a linear 16 bit scan. There are some hints to getting a linear scan for some scanners on this page, including any scanner supported by VueScan. (Silverfast can also be persuaded to yield a linear scan, but I don't know the details.)
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Are there any side by side comparison images using NegPos or ColorNeg as apposed to the scanner's software including time it takes for each to arrive at the results?
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a color conversion example is posted here:
http://www.daltonrooney.com/weblog/2...og-to-digital/
(not my work, but I'll have something soon).
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If you already own Silverfast with Negafix, after allot of side by side testing there is no advantage that I could ever find with NegPos. Unless I am missing something.
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I just bought a Nikon Coolscan 9000, and I'd rather not spend an additional $400 on Silverfast (particularly since I already paid for an Epson version of Silverfast). So the $67 for ColorNeg and ColorPos seemed reasonable. I'll run tests soon - as soon as my travel schedule lightens a bit.
I'll be happy to share a few 'RAW' scans with you, Kirk, if you'd like to compare your workflow results to my results. I am fairly new to scanning, though, so I do have a lot to learn (I've spent considerable time in darkrooms, mostly B&W, but some color, too).
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Just to throw this into the discussion. Nikon is not going to update the Nikon Scan software to be compatible with Mac OS 10.5. Silverfast has a version in the works, don't know about Vuescan.
http://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/c...2J5PSZwX2dyaWR
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Ouch!
I do have Vuescan, so that may be my future choice (I plan to move to a Mac in the coming year).
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I run Nikon scan with my 9000 on a Mac with OS 10.5.1. It may not be optimized for the Intel processors or Leopard, but it does run.