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Even though this video is primarily publicity for the new Capture One negative processing tools, the discussion wanders across various aspects of digital and film photography and is of possible interest to members who don't frequent the Film or digital processing forums.
For anyone not familiar with any of this. Capture One is a raw processor that allows you to tether a digital camera to the computer it's being run on, which, when carefully set up, will allow you to photograph film negatives and convert them into digital files for processing the same way as any other digital files (along with doing everything else a raw processor does)
The film negatives need to be carefully backlit, the camera carefully aligned with the film, and the software needs to be able to convert the negative images on the film into positive images on the digital file. And there are various ways of doing this, along with different software options.
The linked video is a slightly dry/dull 50+ minutes of discussion between a marketing person from Capture One, two software developers from Capture One and the co-founder of Negative Supply (who make hardware for copying film negatives).
There are some insights into the increasing interest in film photography and the practicalities of working with film, why the C1 software developers still use film along with their goals behind the negative conversion tool. There is also some background on why Negative Supply was founded and their assessment of how the C1 film conversion tool stacks up against the competition.
Maybe not surprisingly, the Negative Supply person is enthusiastic about the C1 tool, which has rekindled his enthusiasm for colour film (he had started using only black and white film) and is re-scanning his existing colour negatives with C1. Again maybe not surprisingly the C1 people were enthusiastic about the Negative Supply hardware.
The little snippets and insights into all sorts of things related to film photography, vs digital, along with some commentary on practical issues of scanning negatives, made it a worthwhile watch for me. It was also interesting to get to know a little bit about the people behind the software at C1 and the hardware at Negative Supply.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e_KZTMyiO4
For anyone not familiar with any of this. Capture One is a raw processor that allows you to tether a digital camera to the computer it's being run on, which, when carefully set up, will allow you to photograph film negatives and convert them into digital files for processing the same way as any other digital files (along with doing everything else a raw processor does)
The film negatives need to be carefully backlit, the camera carefully aligned with the film, and the software needs to be able to convert the negative images on the film into positive images on the digital file. And there are various ways of doing this, along with different software options.
The linked video is a slightly dry/dull 50+ minutes of discussion between a marketing person from Capture One, two software developers from Capture One and the co-founder of Negative Supply (who make hardware for copying film negatives).
There are some insights into the increasing interest in film photography and the practicalities of working with film, why the C1 software developers still use film along with their goals behind the negative conversion tool. There is also some background on why Negative Supply was founded and their assessment of how the C1 film conversion tool stacks up against the competition.
Maybe not surprisingly, the Negative Supply person is enthusiastic about the C1 tool, which has rekindled his enthusiasm for colour film (he had started using only black and white film) and is re-scanning his existing colour negatives with C1. Again maybe not surprisingly the C1 people were enthusiastic about the Negative Supply hardware.
The little snippets and insights into all sorts of things related to film photography, vs digital, along with some commentary on practical issues of scanning negatives, made it a worthwhile watch for me. It was also interesting to get to know a little bit about the people behind the software at C1 and the hardware at Negative Supply.