Negative Conversion

[platypus (Canon & Mac (Intel and M1))]

The easiest and one of the best ways is NegativeLab Pro, a plugin for Lightroom

For PhotoLab and FilmPack, there is no other way than to convert manually like shown in a few posts in this forum, e.g.

DXO Photo Lab works great with color negative scans

Existing problem: I’ve been scanning film with an Epson v800 scanner in Vuescan, then importing the 48 bit scans into PhotoLab. Whether by happy accident or hidden feature, the color correction and levels balancing on the images is probably the best and fastest I’ve ever seen for scans of negatives. It can be a bit more difficult if there’s not a clear grey area in the photo, but copying setting across images works well in that instance. Proposed solution: In the future, you might want to add…

Automatic negative conversion

I often take pictures of negatives instead of scanning them. Unfortunately, converting color negatives is a bit tedious because you have to create the appropriate presets yourself. Couldn’t that process be built in as an automatic option like in a scanning program? The negatives must be inverted with a subsequent white balance taking into account the orange masking of the color negatives. That shouldn’t be a difficult matter, because the technology has been available in scanning programs for a…

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Negative Conversion

I am currently digitizing old color and b/w negatives. I therefore propose to add a negative conversion that will, after its application, let me use all sliders like on positive images. Today’s workaround with the help of the tone curve (make \ from / ) changes the sense of many sliders.

Dedicated tool to invert a negative image

I like photographing old black and with negative image with my Nikon Z7ii and Nikkor 55mm macro. That would ne great to have a dedicated tool to invert negative image. Of course I can reverse the diagonal of the tone curve, but then many functions are reversed, not very easy to work after.

I’ve tried darktable, but found no friend in it.