Revised, better, simpler, faster way to work with Black & White negatives in Darktable During a couple of development / scanning cycles I’ve been less than satisfied with the result from my scans - so I started to revise my Darktable methods. With the help of an AI-agent, yes I use AI when it feels relevant, I found a procedure that seems to render a lot better results than my previous. ...
IMPORTANT This method is not what I use now, check out Better negatives in Darktable Darktable can be quite confusing but it is open source and free so I’ll stick with it! Here’s my process for converting scanned 35mm black and white negatives using negadoctor - this is very bare bones and not extensively tested, but it is something. What you need: A photo of your light source without any negative in front A photo with a chunk of unexposed negative A photo or part of photo that is exposed ...
This roll is scanned brighter than my previous rolls (6 of 10 brightness on the JCC led). This time I used a lot of the auto-features in darktable/negadoctor on the first frame and then used that preset on all of the negatives. ...
I use Darktable for all my RAW-editing, it, as well as photography as a whole, is a new thing – thus I’m not very good, but learning. The roll here is a Kodak Tri-X 400 shot with the Lomo MC-A. The images in the first gallery are edited the way I thought it was supposed to be done. The photos in the secound gallery are edited with different settings from the first – a new preset I made for negadoctor. I have no idea why the cat picture is not as blue as the others. ...