Setting the filename to (which is the default setting for the processed files) gives your Raw files the normal auto-generated filenames that VueScan normally uses. You can disable the saving of regular (processed) files, too, since those won’t be useful. To get VueScan to save the Raw file, go to the Output tab and check the “Raw file” option. (VueScan’s Raw mode should not be confused with digital camera RAW files, which are completely different and wholly unrelated.) It supports saving of “Raw” files-and those files are actually just TIFF images that can be loaded into any image editor. Next, we have to make sure VueScan doesn’t do anything to the scanned image that we don’t want. Unfortunately, VueScan makes you guess at the adjustment and re-scan the preview until you get it right. I found it necessary to preview a frame and adjust the offset until it lines up properly. VueScan also doesn’t seem to be very good at finding the edges of the frames on a strip of color negative film, at least in “Image” mode. Of course, this means VueScan will no longer invert the negative or remove the orange mask, so I’ll be doing that myself later. Obviously we don’t want this, or any other behind-the-scenes adjustments, so the first thing to do is set VueScan’s “Media Type” to “Image,” same as we use for slide film. With negatives it’s much the same: choosing “Color negative” will make VueScan do terrible things to your pictures, based on “profiles” it has for various types of film. With this setting, VueScan adjusts your scan’s colors to “compensate” for the film’s characteristics, neatly defeating the purpose of scanning it in the first place. One thing I found scanning slides was that setting “Media” to “Slide film” in VueScan is never, ever what you want when scanning slide film. VueScan does a good job, but has one of the worst user interfaces I’ve ever used figuring it out is difficult and scanning with it takes a few times longer than it should, so it’s my hope that this will help others trying to do the same thing. I’m using a Nikon Coolscan 5000, with VueScan software to do the scanning. I make no claim that this is the best of all possible approaches, or that I won’t figure out something better later, but it seems to work. But one thing that is certain is that I want to start with as faithful a representation of the film image as possible. ![]() ![]() The thing about color negatives is that there is no reference for what the image is “supposed” to look like: not only is the film a negative, it’s got the orange mask. ![]() It was time to sit down and figure out a better method. Thus far my approach to scanning color negatives has been to play with it until it looks reasonable. Scanning Color Negatives: A Method Home About Visited States Map Scanning Color Negatives: A Method
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