Any interest in a "film negative" feature in RT ?

[floessie (Flössie)]

@rom9

I’d like to ask the RT developers if there is any interest in adding a feature to RT, to facilitate the task of DIY “scanning” of color film negatives using a digital camera.

I can’t speek for all “the RT developers”, but I’m personally interested in such a feature (and was talking about the color film problem with @heckflosse lately). I can offer you my help for getting this into RT.

@rom9

So, what do you think? Should i go on and try to implement this? Would it be a desireable feature in RT? Or do you think it would just increase software bloat, for a functionality that is rarely used? I realize that diy film scanning is a very niche problem, so i don’t know if such a feature really belongs in RT.

Definitely. I don’t think DIY film scanning is a niche, there are so many negatives lying dormant and waiting to be recovered. A ready-to-use solution in RT would bring that to the masses.

@rom9

Maybe it would be better to do that in an external “pre-processor” program, creating an intermediate file? That would be closer to the unix philosophy…

While we’re all fans of the UNIX philosophy this wouldn’t help John Doe (who isn’t aware of something like the command line).

@rom9

to make a cheap test, i took a picture of a color checker displayed on my PC monitor (i don’t have a real one; at least the screen is factory calibrated ) with a Kodak ColorPlus 200 film roll.

Hmm.

(Shush! Look at this. Maybe you could ask the one with the color target to lend it to you.)

@rom9

Note that the same parameters calculated for the ColorPlus 200, also work fine with the Kodak Gold 200 used in the tutorial, and with a different camera used to perform the “scanning”.

Great!

@rom9

That’s all. Hope this is useful to somebody

That’s a lot. Now let’s make it useful for everybody. Fork RT on GitHub and make a pull request. When you need a helping hand (or two), don’t hesitate to ask here, in a PM, or in the PR at GitHub. Really looking forward to it.

Best,
Flössie