jamesjewell
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I'm not trying to get into a pissing war, but I'd say you are ignoring that there are, in fact, many older technologies that surpass their modern counterparts, especially when the modern "replacement" was designed for any number of economies over pure performance.
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What RAW converter is that screen shot from?
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So let me thank everyone for their inputs. They've been most insightful. I posted this in "Casual Photo Conversations" because I guess I was looking to see if there were folks who had a similar feeling about digital color vs. analog color, if there even is such a difference, and what they had done about it. There is just something about my analog pics that I find more natural to my eye, be it C-41 or E-6. I've always assumed it was the colors, but perhaps is is the texture of grain, even though I don't see any grain in my 4x5 shots. Maybe I just need to put a lot more effort into my digital workflow to get the results I get right out of the box with film. Maybe it's a phase I'm going through........ BTW, my analog workflow is hybrid. I don't have a darkroom any more. Develop and scan.........
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OK, so Ektar is not subtle by any stretch of the imagination, but I still do find the colors to be more pleasing than my digital results (except for skin tones).
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I'm as sure as I can be. I'm not new to color management. I'm quite happy with my scanned analog color images, so I think I am doing it right, or they would be off. I'm starting to thing that this is a subtle psychological preference, though I cannot explain it.
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It must be nice to have enough time in your day to go out of your way to be patronizing and still contribute nothing. Well, I guess I have a little free time too.
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Perhaps I didn't choose my words carefully enough nor provide enough background. I am well versed in color management, and have a fully color-managed workflow. I profile and calibrate my monitors regularly. My printers are also profiled. What I should have been more clear about is my use of the phrase "unprocessed RAW". I didn't mean before initial RAW conversion (of which Rodeo_Joe gives a most excellent demonstration) but rather the next step of image editing. Apologies for the bad choice of words. I've attached an image converted to JPEG and sRGB. The colors just seem hyper-real to me. It was shot on a Sony a99.
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I shoot both film and digital, 35mm up to 4x5. I grew up in a Minolta family, so when I switched to Digital, I went with Sony. I've just never been happy with the digital colors I get. They seem garish and "plasticky", whereas Kodak Ektar and Portra look natural and subtle to my eyes. However I see plenty of pro digital photography that doesn't seem to have the plastic look. Is Sony known for garish colors? Do all RAW images look that way before being processed? Any thoughts on workflow? Anyone else share the same feelings? I've just started experimenting with some commercial film emulation profiles in Lightroom, but not yet sure if that will scratch my itch. V/R James.
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FWIW, I developed a roll of ACROS two days later with Ilfotec DD-X and the same stop bath, fixer, and tap-water pre-rinse. No spots whatsoever, so we can eliminate the quality of the tap water and the fixer and stop bath. I'm leaning towards undesolved xtol.
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Joe, Thank you for that. Do you have any advice on mixing XTOL? I went to town on that mixture with a power drill and paint-mixer attachment for many minutes.
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Hi All! I just developed a roll of Ilford HP5 in XTOL 1+1, and scanned it with a DSLR, and each negative has thousands of little dark spots on them. It is not dust (cleaned the negatives with pec pads and fluid to be shure). It is not air bubbles, as far as I can tell. I mix all my chemicals with distilled water, and do a final rinse with distilled water and photoflo. I use Patterson tanks. I almost always use rodinal in a semi-stand method and have never had this problem. The only thing that changed was using xtol. I did use tap water for a pre-rinse. Any thoughts?
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Little green dots.....
jamesjewell replied to jamesjewell's topic in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
Joe, Thanks. I'm not quite sure what box my photos are in. I recently moved and still have many boxes to go through. Having said that, I unpacked a Soviet Leica copy and bought a few rolls of Ektar 100. I'll run some film through it this weekend. Give me a week to get it developed and I'll repost. Thanks again, James -
Little green dots.....
jamesjewell replied to jamesjewell's topic in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
Once I finish the family happy snaps, I plan to rescan my old amateur landscape and portrait, as well as all of my new medium format film that I started shooting agan a few months back. For that, I had intended to start making linear raw scans to feed into ColorPerfect. My fear is that these medium format scans will be as bad as my 35mm scans.
