Dear Florian, Your post is very inspiring and helpful, as was Buck Bito's. The guys at Nova Rolfim, the lab that was recommended to me, had indeed said that scanning negative would be more difficult and expensive then reversal film. Maybe they should have been more upfront and state that they could not do a good job with negative material. I might take this issue up with them.
I did not know however the specifics of scanning neg vs reversal, that is, the orange mask and the need for a “deeper” scan. Your email is very informative, thanks! What I don't get though, is that my material was scanned on a Rank Cintel Ursa Diamond, a machine that should, in principle, be able to encompass the full dynamic range of the images, and not deliver what I got, clipped skies that look like blown up electronic noise. So maybe they tried to apply a profile for reversal film, rather than trying to fine-tune it for negative? A video made ochoypico was indicated to me by Buck. I had a look again. Indeed the video of the two models is impressive, and humbling since what I got with the same film stock is much worse. I am willing after reading you to send my material to another lab and ask them to scan a sector before committing to rescan everyhting. So there would be ochoypico, AVP that you seem to recommend, and cinelicious in LA of whom I only heard good things. Do you have personal experience with AVP? Many thanks again for your help. Marco _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
