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chuck
@chuck

I've been interested in comparing home scans to lab scans lately. The first pic is a home scan with my mirrorless and Negative Lab Pro, the second is from a lab. I was kinda blown away when I got the lab scan back. I'm used to NLP being more saturated, but this is the biggest difference I've seen so far.


chuck
@chuck
I took a reference shot on digital

I think what happened is the sky blew out in the film and lost its saturation, so what was a two color scene of orange and blue kinda became just blue and white, and NLP went ham on the saturation like it always does. It's an interesting edge case - the scanner just has to decide what the one hue of the entire image is without any other hues for reference


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in reply to @chuck's post:

The interesting thing about this photo is I took it several months ago and home scanned it immediately, but didn't get the lab scan until recently. So the blue one is the one that's been stewing in my memory this whole time... but neither of these is all that close to what it really looked like. The sky was definitely bright blue, but the canyon was brown. Like I do remember noting that the shadows were surprisingly saturated, so it makes sense they translated to blue. I'd say the blue one feels more real, but they're both much more monochromatic than real life

in reply to @chuck's post:

This is why we don't even bother with negative software these days. Everything is either too saturated or auto- white balanced to the point of having no colors. Our process these days is scan as positive, invert and subtract the film base in Photoshop, and then tweak with curves tool as needed. It's hard to automate but nothing else has given us results we're happy with.