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This one twenty paces from yesterday's entry. I'm ecstatic about the color from this roll of negative film. It's Portra 400 scanned and run through Colorneg before a few minor tweaks in Photopaint. Maybe it's only the location and the light, because I've certainly had a hard enough time in the past getting what I considered faithful colors from negative stock. It obviously works as a medium, since so many people use(d) it, but I've had a hell of a time getting color that appeals to me. Apparently it's my scanning technique.

I'm ready to use this as a movie location. It even suggests the hint of a story.

Colorneg - TECH ALERT!

Listen up, all you Luddites. If you're still using film, and scanning images into the computer, you may need this plug-in for PS. I read about ColorNeg a year or so ago, and tried the demo version, which is fully functional but saves files with a grid over them. For whatever reason, it didn't seem to suit me at the time. Recently I tried it again and am much more favorably impressed, to the point that I purchased a copy. This permits use of registered copies of ColorPos and GamSat as well, all of which require 48 bit scans as input. For the color 4 x 5 negatives as scanned by Vuescan @ 1600 dpi x 16bit, my files are approximately 252 meg in size. Rather massive, but in fact PhotoPaint X4 gets around them without too much trouble even using the four year old Dell box. The point of this name dropping is that this is finally a way to scan problem color negative film that has never scanned consistently with the Epson software for the V700. You might want to give it a try - and let me know of your experiences.