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Here is a photo of Dennis coworker, Susan (used by permission), taken in 1978.
The film is motion picture film, touted to take make great slides and great prints.
The film is only designed to make a good positive image; it is really not designed
for color printing, and commercial equipment cannot handle the negatives. The raw
color is way off, and setting to the medium gray card does not help without additional
color correction. |
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Here is a picture of Megabyte the cat from 1978 on a motion picture film
negative. Extensive color correction was necessary, and the color is still not that
accurate. |
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Here is a scan of a print compared to a scan of the original negative, with
scratch repair turned on. The color-sensing of the Nikon scanner is better than that
of the Microtek scanner. |
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Here is a flatbed negative scan, showing the raw and the processed image.
It is obvious that the Microtek scanner cannot scan a negative as well as the Nikon
scanner. |
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Here is a Nikon scan, keeping the scratches on the raw scan. During
image processing, the scratches were removed. Interestingly, the commercial Toshiba
printer does not reproduce the scratches on a print. |