Yes, my monitor (Dell 27") is calibrated/profiled, with a XRite i1 Studio. It is noticeably warmer than the light panel - I shall have to think about that!
Thanks for the suggestion about exposure...
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Yes, my monitor (Dell 27") is calibrated/profiled, with a XRite i1 Studio. It is noticeably warmer than the light panel - I shall have to think about that!
Thanks for the suggestion about exposure...
For the highest quality I would look to a different scanning method. The Kaiser light panel is relatively cheap, and I can tell neither the image brightness nor the colour are precisely even across...
I can set the kelvin temperature. I have set it to 5000K, but as I'm shooting in raw I can adjust the white balance in Lightroom anyway.
I mask the film sheets with a piece of card with a rectangular cut-out, painted matt black. This keeps out all extraneous light from the panel.
After an embarrassing experience of uneven brightness...
I have made some progress, attributable to correcting some user error and understanding some machine error.
First, I realised that the Kaiser light panel rechargeable battery was running down;...
The Leica SL 24-90 zoom is pretty good, but yes, I will try the Leica R 100mm to see what difference it makes.
I don't. I can frame and focus on the whole of a 4x5 sheet with the lens I have (Leica 24-90 zoom lens), so I shouldn't need a macro lens. I have been scanning 35mm (B&W) with a 100mm macro lens.
I shall try this. I have set WB in camera to 5000K, which is what the Kaiser light panel is supposed to be, but I agree I should check it. Thank you.
I'm not sure what you mean by your first line. I like the colours and tonality in the original transparency, and I would like to reproduce them in a digital version. I haven't found a way to do that...
Because the colours I see in the transparency on the light table are much more appealing to this viewer than I have achieved so far in Lightroom.
Thank you - yes, I was using the wrong term - I want to make a camera profile for Lightroom (#.dcp file), which I have done before with a ColorChecker Passport and Xrite software. I have not yet...
Thank you, Alan - that's considerably better than my scans after processing
Thanks, Neil - I will investigate this approach and see what's available here.
I am using the Kaiser Slimlight Piano. I haven't had particular problems with colour negatives.
It is specified as:
Light source: 23 LEDs, 5000 Kelvin, CRI=95
Luminous density: approx. 750 cd/mē
I have shot 20 4x5 sheets of Provia 100F, scanned them with a digital camera, and imported them to Lightroom with the Adobe Standard profile.
The digital results are a bit disappointing in terms of...
Just taken it out to take a first shot, of a rusty burnt out car on wasteland, so I took the Nikkor SE 90 5.6, with the bag bellows.
I'm an experienced photographer but very inexperienced in large...
Custom Bellows UK recommend Evostick (contact adhesive)
I've been patient and waited the minimum 14 weeks for it to be made - and it arrived this morning, together with a fresnel screen and extra bag bellows.
Everything as I expected - very sleek, well...
I got a new PC last summer, for photo editing in Lightroom and video editing in Resolve. (I'm a Windows person, without being tribal about it.) I thought about building it myself, but reckoned the...
I have carried a Sekonic meter, but now find a simple digital camera, especially with a histogram display, does a better job for metering a whole scene. I carry a Leica CL, but others would do, and...
Who's a pretty boy then?
New bellows, arrived and glued yesterday, first stretch today.
No problems with quality, colour and fit.
No disasters with the fitting: there's a good wide surface to glue...
I have ordered replacement bellows for my Gandolfi. I sent the measurements as specified on the website. I suspect my current bellows are not original - they look a poor match and not precisely...
I was advised to get a long one, and I'm glad I did. Everything in large format is on a bigger scale, so having a cable release that you can operate from the back of the camera is useful. Mine is...
Thank you!
I'm beginning to realise that I would be better off editing mainly in Photoshop rather than Lightroom, for these reasons. LR is more useful for the many similar digital images I generate, but PS is...
I've been doing that once I have finalised the colour. I'm an obsessive colour tweaker though, so I'd rather work non-destructively on a dng if I can. I'm just trying to work out which are...
Thank you for all the advice, which I shall take on board.
As a recent new member of this forum I find it really irritating that I cannot (unless I've missed something?) show my appreciation of...
I still like the idea of evaluating a colour film directly - I find it difficult as an orange negative, though I find less problem with B&W.
As for trying reversal, it will be just part of my large...
I'm willing to take the first comment as positive and the second as negative:). The yellow colour of the rock is accurate, but I may have left the slate grey as a bit too blue.
Slate quarry in Coppermines Valley, Coniston, UK
Gandolfi 5x4, Nikkor SW 90 f8, Portra 400
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My keenness to embrace reversal film has receded slightly in the last few days as I have worked out a basic recipe and workflow to invert colour negatives as a preset in Lightroom, based on Alex...
I recently bought a FLM CP30 M4 II. No centre column, 20kg capacity, and surprisingly light (1.45kg) and tall (1.63m): 30mm leg top diameter, 60mm disk, and very stable. I added a Novoflex levelling...
My reasons for taking large format film photographs and taking them in colour are only partly aiming for faithful reproduction of colour.
I have recently started large format photography because I...
Thank you. As soon as I have new bellows for my Gandolfi I shall get some trial boxes: perhaps Velvia 100, Provia 100F and Ektachrome. I'll leave Velvia 50 till I am sure it's worth the effort/cost...
Thanks everyone, for all the advice.
To confirm, I wouldn't be printing, except as an inkjet print from the scanned positive.
I am a recent starter in 5x4 large format - I have only run through a box of 25 B&W, and 20 colour (Portra 400). I'm looking further ahead to the sort of photography I will be using the format for -...
The location has two quarries separated by a wall, in which there are two arches. The further quarry is filled with water. One shot was of the two arches (and I asked two strangers to pose for me),...
This might be my best shot, ever! Accidental double exposure from Hodge Close Quarry, Lake District, UK.
Gandolfi 4x5, Nikkor SW 90 f8, Portra 400 (colour was uninteresting, so I converted to mono)....
It's just bizarre - my experience in the UK (yes, I know, not EU......): I have bought three used lenses from Japan in the last couple of months. One incurred customs and VAT. The other two sailed...
I have made several books from inkjet printed images, using various traditional binding methods. I started with a concertina ('Leporello') style, moved on to Japanese stab binding, and then a hand...