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sohi
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I've been messing about with a lightbox for digitisng my negatives and while it's definitley better than the cheap film scanner I bought, I'm still not 100% happy.
My images are looking pretty flat and uninspiring when I do a straight negative to positive flip using the tone curve in Lightroom.
These are shot on Kentmere 400 in my Hexar, with decent Voigltander lenses, devved in R09 One s1hot which has given me plenty contrasty negs in the past and these do look good so I'm going to have to assume that it's at the digitising stage that they are going flat.
I'm photographing the negs infront of a Jessops lightbox with my Canon 5d mk1 and 100mm macro lens. Camera set to aperture priority and between f2.8 and about f4.
Anyone else digitising in a similar way?
This image is shown as photogrpahed, with the tone curve flipped and then with the exposure bumped up (which darkens it as the tone curve is flipped).