If that’s the case then it’s odd that it can even be applied to camera raw files. The functionality it offers certainly isn’t specific to any method of capture, it’s just an extra set of curves and some presets.
Maybe I repeat myself. I find this new feature great, even though it may not be perfect yet. It is an excellent start. Better than what was available before.
Yes, Negative Lab Pro is excellent for dealing with negative conversion. It’s the current standard against which other conversion programs should be measured. Among other things, it has a library of film emulsions for color corrections; presumably DxO could take advantage of its existing FilmPack emulsions for similar benefits.
My only complaint with NLP is that it’s currently only available as a Lightroom plugin, but the promised standalone version should address that.
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Maybe it’s because I have never used the standalone version of FilmPack but, on trying it, I don’t seem to her able to find how to reverse the image left to right.
@Joanna, based on the overall film related content of this thread, it was not clear to which feature your last post about reversing the image left to right in the FilmPack standalone was referring.
Did you mean reversing an image both from negative to positive and from left to right at the same time? If you just meant the mirror image flipping feature, its absence in the Filmpack stand-alone is because it is part of ViewPoint.
Mark
Flipping the tone curve(s) is something that FilmPack 8 introduced a few weeks ago. the new feature seems to be, hmmm, not quite ready yet as we can read in other posts and @uncoy ‘s recent message.
Flipping the image can be done with ViewPoint (!) or by editing the orientation tag value in the .dop or .xmp sidecar. Change the value, reload the sidecar and you get the new orientation (consult exiftool for respective values) - also without a VP license. Maybe DxO will block this possibility in an update, but as of now it still works.
Try with a bunch of virtual copies for easier “heureka” moments. or read the numbers in the middle of the filenames of the physical copies:
With virtual copies, I renamed the files first (-oX) and then set X in the sidecar:
She makes copies of the negative with the ‘wrong’ side to the camera. The quality should be better. But then you have to mirror them.
George
Just to add that the Film Scan Optimizer Palette does work with FP8 when accessed from within PL. Or at least it does for me on PL9 on Windows - as reported ni a different thread there may be issues on MacOS.
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