Originally Posted by
Tim Lookingbill
Robert,
Thanks for posting the Dalton Rooney link to the ColorNeg comparison samples. I'ld plumb forgot about this thread since no one seemed to be able to post one sample comparison.
I'm assuming the comparison shots are the pic of the field of cattails at the bottom of the blog.
The appearance of the ColorNeg version looks as if it's still in RAW color space. I assigned sRGB when opened in PS 7 because it was left untagged. Is this greenish brown dull look typical of ColorNeg output?
I mean really. It's quite dull looking just like the one on the C-F system site. Couldn't make the color pop even applying Hue/Sat. That's when you know it's in RAW machine color.
However all I had to do to fix it was assign Joseph Holmes Ektaspace RGB, convert back to sRGB, neutralize in Levels using the highlite area of the branch as sampling point, apply 50% fade to the Levels neutralizer and the color just popped without appearing overly saturated and contrasty. Better than what could be achieved using the Epson software.
Since negs can't be color managed or profiled, I'm assuming ColorNeg must be CM'ed after the conversion to positive like I did by assigning JoRGB. If it works this good on the dull cattail image after what I did then it's at least a better starting point over any other method. I've tried Silverfast's NegaFix and all I got was even more dull brownish looking results on Kodak UC 400.
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