hello all,
I've had a cezanne for some time now, but I'm rather embarrassed to say that it has been laying dormant for over a year! What i'm about to type will make me sound as if I'm new to the machine, but off and on I've been scanning with it for years and I've had some fantastic results in the past!
I cranked the ol' best up last night to scan some 5x4 negs that have been piling up in the "to be scanned tray". Having been away from the scanning process for so long, I've kind of forgotten how to get the best out of it! So I've now a load of questions that, previously, I think I might have ignored.
1. which way up should the negatives go? emulsion up or film base up? I have trouble discerning the difference, but at the moment I'm scanning with the negative identifiers reading correctly (so I think that's emulsion down)
2. does your film touch the scanning plate, or do you use the mask to 'raise' it. I've been allowing my plastic mask to act as a spacer, reducing the chances of newton rings etc.
3. do you use the perspex cover sheet? surely this is another 2 surfaces for dust to collect?
MY WORKFLOW AT THE MO...
-tape the negs to a home-made mask
-load into the cezanne 'mask first'
-scan as a positive with details as set in Peter De Smidt's blog (thanks peter you were really helpful to me some years ago)
-invert in photoshop
-levels to clip H/L and shadow in RGB layers
-remove colour noise by gaussian blur > edit> fade gaussian blur > colour (works wonders!)
-despair with the lack of colour consistency between frames!
-place a post on LF forums, begging for help!
is there anything I can do to automate the 'conversion' of a negative to a positive? Not to save time, but to ensure colour and contrast consistency between similar frames?
I'll add to this as I try to remember what I did with my workflow?
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