Recently dug out a bunch of old negatives (8-10yrs old) from the store cupboard. Now I am in the process of archiving the negatives.
I faced alot of problems when archiving. The negative doesnt seem to produce the same colours as it ought to be. Is it the colour has faded? There is a strong colour cast towards yellow. I tried to use vuescan's restore fading option but this is not a fool proof method. Sometimes the alogorithm does not "know" what scene it is. (for eg a beach scene, where there are yellow sand. The program thinks that it is a colour cast then try to correct it, make a very blue hue to the scanned picture.
I tried to lock the film base colour by scanning a blank exposure of the negative strip, so that the programe can subtract the film base colour effectively when scanning. But it seems that, there still exist colour cast. So it brings me to the question... Is it true that certain colour dye fade faster than the other. If it is true, what is the colour i need to compensate back? :dunno:
What is a good software to scanning of negatives?
I faced alot of problems when archiving. The negative doesnt seem to produce the same colours as it ought to be. Is it the colour has faded? There is a strong colour cast towards yellow. I tried to use vuescan's restore fading option but this is not a fool proof method. Sometimes the alogorithm does not "know" what scene it is. (for eg a beach scene, where there are yellow sand. The program thinks that it is a colour cast then try to correct it, make a very blue hue to the scanned picture.
I tried to lock the film base colour by scanning a blank exposure of the negative strip, so that the programe can subtract the film base colour effectively when scanning. But it seems that, there still exist colour cast. So it brings me to the question... Is it true that certain colour dye fade faster than the other. If it is true, what is the colour i need to compensate back? :dunno:
What is a good software to scanning of negatives?