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Apr 10, 2004
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I have a kodak 14n with a 55mm micro lens that I have been doing copy work of my old negatives with.
I’m shooting them using strobe lighting.
My copy set-up is very good, and my B&W results are great. My problem is in reversing color negatives.
It appears that I might need very heavy red filration on my lightbox to offset the film base.
All scanners that can handle film have software to deal with the reversal.
I have yet to find a stand alone P.S. plug-in that will help.

If anyone knows of one, or has any words of wisdom to share regarding this process ,
Please do.

Thanks

Ed Zabel

www.edzabel.com
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Mike Russell
Apr 10, 2004
poi wrote:
I have a kodak 14n with a 55mm micro lens that I have been doing copy work of my old negatives with.
I’m shooting them using strobe lighting. My copy set-up is very good, and
my B&W
results are great.
My problem is in reversing color negatives.
It appears that I might need very heavy red filration on my lightbox to
offset the film base.

Ed,
Actually what you want is not red but plenty of blue light coming through the neg, so stick with the strobe. Do check for a weak blue channel once you have the image in Photoshop.

All scanners that can handle film have software to deal with the reversal. I have yet to find a stand alone P.S. plug-in that will help.

It can be done with curves in photoshop. Check out:
www.zocalo.net/~mgr/DigitalPhoto/derCurveMeister/

These curves also ship with the curvemeister curve library.

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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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