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shutterbug guy
17-Oct-2021, 16:43
I captured the negative with a Canon R5 using a CR99 rated lightbox with a film holder and a copy stand from Negative Supply.

The 120 Ektar 100 film was personally processed using Tetenal Colortec C-41. It was carefully timed and it was precisely temperature regulated. The photo was tweaked a tad in Luminar AI with a sky replacement. No serious color adjustments were made. The negative conversion was make using FilmLab and VueScan, this is the best I could produce. I'm not real happy with the colors.

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Well, I rescanned the negative using pretty much the same process except this time I used the Epson Perfection V850 Pro with SilverFast software. The final Tiff file was scanned at 3200 ppi, 6680x6680 scan dimensions, 127mb Tiff file.

Personally, I really like the colors much better than what I came up with within the previous effort.

Not that it matters but I just realized, I had scanned the negative upside down the first time :-).

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Tin Can
18-Oct-2021, 05:51
Where is that location?

shutterbug guy
18-Oct-2021, 17:42
Where is that location?

Khao Chi Chan, in Chon Buri, Thailand, close to Pattaya.

_tf_
19-Oct-2021, 00:52
Not that it matters but I just realized, I had scanned the negative upside down the first time :-).


FWIW, I always struggle with this on the V850 :) But it looks like the V850 effort was worth it.

shutterbug guy
19-Oct-2021, 02:14
FWIW, I always struggle with this on the V850 :) But it looks like the V850 effort was worth it.

Thanks for the kind comment.

I'll keep working on the camera scanning method however as I believe the image and file size will be larger on 35mm scans.