How to process photo-scanned B&W negatives?

[Jade_NL (Jacques)]

There haven’t been that many (B&W) negative workflows here.

These two threads might be of interest:

inverting photos of color negatives with darktable

I have been considering adding Kodak Cineon scan system is darktable. It’s now an experimental module : Results : [Capture d’écran de 2020-02-28 19-45-44] [house] [house_01]

Grainy Reflections

As I did already a couple of years back, I propose something not quite usual to play with. Here you find a raw output from my negative scanner (Plustek OpticFilm 8200i). 13.dng (25.1 MB) And here is the outcome of my efforts. [13_billznn_rsz] Both licensed under a [Creative Commons License]. (I’ve just realized upon posting how similar the subject is to the one I posted 2 years ago…) If you are interested in the processing, you can find details in my latest blog post. Special bonus: as …

These are negadoctor related though. This module is not yet a part of the latest stable (3.0.2), but this module is available in development and will be part of the August 10 stable 3.2.0 release.

I do mention this, even though it might not help you right now, to make sure that you do not start building a workflow around the (in my opinion flawed) invert module. It is definitely worth waiting 'till August for this new module. It is rather nice!