Scanning my first medium format negatives
For a while, I have been trying to learn how to scan my negatives. After picking up my first 120mm medium format camera, the Mamiya M645 with the 80mm F2.8 lens, I wanted to scan my negatives to get the most out of them.
For months I have tried to scan them with little to no luck. My flatbed scanner in the CanoScan 9000F Mark II. This scanner I got from finn.no for cheap (800NOK). I started with looking into software to this, which wasn’t as easy as it seemed like the original software from canon was impossible to download. So after a lot of google searching, I stumbled onto the software Vuescan. This seemed to be my saving grace, but the quality was shit if you ask me. I tried to scan as negatives in the software and positive to convert with negative lab pro in Adobe Lightroom. After trying this for several days, I couldn’t say I was too happy.
A couple of weeks later I decided to try scanning again after finding the software Silverfast. And this was finally the quality I was looking for. After a lot of twerking in the software, exporting to TIFF and editing in Lightroom.
Heres the results of early morning scans today.
My first 120mm Portrait
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