A slightly faded 35mm scan from vuescan to tif of a positive slide. I tried to fiddle around in rawtherapee to make a jpg, but im quite new to that editor and also the image is a bit complicated. The original tif from scanner is a bit flat and dark.
Its from an RGB scanner, so this this file doesnt need de-mosaicing.
I thought id ask you for interpretations? Open for anything!
Well here’s my go with RT… It’s a bit of a quick go as I am time limited today, but I quite like what I got… but I could play for hours (which I don’t have).
I completely forgot this was a positive film stock scan and used AgX ( I have no clue how you are supposed to handle it but I suppose if one is trying to keep a faithful representation then one wouldn’t use any tonemapping? still curious of dos and don’ts)
I’m also trying to work with negatives.
Indeed, AGx isn’t necessarily very useful — except perhaps in cases with high lights or to increase contrast (I use it in that case).
I prefer starting from a scan of the negative and using Negadoctor; that way, I avoid transformations I don’t fully understand.
I also noticed that changing the input profile to REC2020 instead of the scanner or software’s ICC profile gave me better results — at least in my opinion.
Here’s my test, using the modified input profile. 2026-03-30-0072.tif.xmp (15.7 KB)
