Hi everyone,
Over the last six months, I’ve dusted off my Pentax 67II, ditched the flatbed scanner and improved my negative scans using my digital camera.
I’ve read through the darktable documentation and experimented with different methods, and I’ve finally put together my data-driven approach to film inversion in this blog post.
It might sound like nonsense, but since I changed my approach from ‘I’m digitising a photograph’ to ‘I’m collecting and transforming data’, the final quality of the scans has improved dramatically.
Moving from adjusting sliders based on gut feeling to a precise technical approach has allowed me to extract from my negatives the images I’d been searching for for a long time.
I must also add that, throughout this process, the Lumix S5II has allowed me to capture the maximum amount of detail.
I don’t consider this the definitive article and for this reason I’d like to gather some feedback:
- from the experts, I’d like to understand whether my approach makes sense, or if I’ve gone off the rails;
- from the less experienced, whether the article is useful, whether it’s clear and wehter it has helped you achieve a better end result.
I’d also like to add a few photos of my setup: the ones I have were taken at different times and don’t really fit in with the rest of the article. I hope to take some over the weekend.
Thank you for your feedback!
