![]() ![]() Oh and you’re on your own when it comes to turning your digitised negatives into positives. But this creates a really awkward setup, once the initial euphoria of “it works!” passes, you’re left with this really cumbersome and unreliable system that probably produces uneven sharpness and is a nightmare to align each time you set it up again. Yeah you can just about cobble something together with any semi-recent digital camera, a macro extension tube and a nifty fifty (because proper 1:1 macros are expensive), you can sort of use a tripod, you can find a cheap LED light panel that produces whiteish light and so on. Why is it terrible? Because it requires a shed ton of expensive gear to be done remotely well. It works, it can produce arguably great results – on a level with the very best quality you can achieve from a high end commercial scanner. There I said it! Since my journey back into film photography started in 2017 I’ve been using my digital camera to digitise my negatives. I am new to film photography and scanning so if anyone out there can help me I’d be so grateful as I really want to make this work and if this problem is resolved buy the full version of NLP. of the same picture I got back from my lab. jpg to show that all pictures came out this way, even when edited, I have also included the jpg. dng file as well as screenshots of my settings and the way the picture turned out, I have also included another picture that I have converted through NLP and then (heavily so it doesn’t look lifeless) edited and saved as a. I have included the Google Drive link to my. I have tried NLP on a variety of pictures and they all looked this way, even with Pre-Saturation set to high. ![]() From my understanding, the purpose of NLP is to fasten the workflow of scanning negatives but with all the heavy editing I had to do it easily took me 20 minutes per picture. ![]() Only with heavy editing do they turn out somewhat acceptable. I pretty much tried all profiles and settings but to no avail, the picture still seemed lifeless and nothing like the pictures you see on Youtube or on Forums. To my surprise the way the picture came out was very disappointing, it was very desaturated and lacked contrast, moreover, the brightness was very high, nothing like the results I got from my lab. I opened it in Lightroom, selected the border to white balance the image, cropped the borders, and then converted the color negative (using the Norsitsu profile and the default saturation). dng with 3600dpi, all the other settings and tools were turned off in Silverfast. I put Silverfast to 48bit HDR and saved it as a. ![]() After I got the scanner I immediately rescanned some of my favorite shots, I followed the instructions given on the NLP website. After having read many articles and watched many videos with amazing results I was tempted to buy NLP, but to be on the safe side I first got the Trial version. I was quite satisfied with the results although the sharpness was not perfect, so I decided to invest in a scanner, the Plustek 8200i - this way I also have more control over the scanning and editing process. I am new to film photography and received my first Portra 400 film roll from the lab last week. Hello all, and sorry if this has been asked before. ![]()
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