Well said and I'm stoked to be in your video man, was great to chat! Let's do it again sometime 😁

The biggest trick I learnt from this video is your real name hehe. I’m still scanning like a caveman with my flat bed. This was a great video for when I save up enough or sell my kidney and get a full negative supply set up.

YES!!! Get on board the Ektar train man!!!!!! my favourite film stock ever,.

The quality of these vids are great

I’ve been scanning film since the 90s. Back in the day it was standard to shoot slide film professionally as scanners worked so much better with positive film. as I’ve mentioned before Fuji Provia II was my favourite film to scan. Beautiful quality. I had a Scanmate 5000 drum scanner running ColorQuartet all hooked up to Apple Macs via SCSI connectors. I would still be using that were it not for the connection issues to modern Macs. Now I run a Hasselblad Flextight 646 with Flexcolor software which is not being updated to new Mac Os’s so I keep an older MacBook Pro running the scanner via FireWire 400 and 800 adapters to Lightning at the end of it. Scanning colour negative film is like a black art. It’s very interpretive and easy to get all sorts of variables from just altering the grey point and so on. I would offer the advice to shoot any and every roll you know u are going to scan of colour negative film on paid work obv. with a grey card or colour chart in the scene….then all u have to do is balance the grey and everything moves into the correct colours. From there you can alter colour temperature and mid tones easily. I have recently done two jobs on Ektar 100 which I shot on my Hasselblads - one on A12 back and another on A16 back and they have scanned excellently. Neither featured people in them as for that Portra is my film to use. Portra 800 is currently my favourite film. The 2 stops over the standard Portra 160 (which I rate at EI 100) is very welcome in any light. I shoot it at EI 800 I.e. box speed. This film scans beautifully too.

I'm going to try flipping my film to the emulsion side next time. This is definitely helpful.

First thank you for wearing our jersey. Ektar is fantastic and for me this video confirms my experience. I first confess that I still have problems scanning my colour films so my lab does the job for me. Regards from Brazil.

It’s all tricky no matter how good the gear is! Unless you know what your doing...even film labs can mess it all up! Knowing what to do and know how to do it are two different animals! Good conversation guys! Good seeing Hashem here talking about film Ribs!

Good to see the shots worked out in the end! Some wonderful shots in that roll

Damn I love the ektar look! All these ektar vids definitely gonna push up the price!

I just started shooting 4x5, and for my first color photographs I went with Ektar, and after I put the scans in Lightroom, I was so frustrated! (Portra 35 and 120 has been so easy to convert!) I was sure it was my fault, and I assumed it was a scanning issue. Glad to know I am not the only one struggling with Ektar. I'm going to make some adjustments to my scanning setup and see if it makes a difference. Also the dust thing! OMG! I had no idea. And with 4x5, no matter what I do or how careful I am, there is dust on there. Im going to try cropping the image to a part with little or no dust and see if that helps the conversion!

That tip about scanning the emulsion side is a game-changer! Seems so obvious!

scan the emulsion side????? mind blown!!!!!! going back to reshoot all my negs

As film is meant to be developed and printed to a good paper, I suggest you try that. Then scan the finished photo. A bit tedious, but the results are worth it. Grain is less prominent and the colors are better.

Man, I had the exact same experience with Ektar and after watching Hashem's video I realised it's my scanning. Ironically, it seems like I really need to invest in a digital camera to scan film.

Ektar is also my favorite color negative film but I also have trouble scanning it. Less so in later versions of SIlverfast but it's still tricky. I can nail Portra in pretty much any size but Ektar I find I can wrangle pretty easily in 35mm but as I go up in sizes, it gets trickier and trickier. I'm not sure why. I sure do love it in 4x5 though, it's quite gorgeous!

Man, loving when your are dressed whit brazilian team soccer shirt! Cheer from Brazil

I love Ektar. Everyone I talk to hates it. Haha but I'm probably sticking to Portra 160 for all my work because I know it so well. But if anyone wants to give me some of their hated Ektar I'll shoot the hell out of it.

Great conversation, you got me subbing man

I can't belive you said that about my favourite film! I forgive you though! 😁

bruh now it all makes sense. Recently I've been getting redscale images when I do my first conversion in NLP. Now I realize I've probably been scanning the wrong side 🧐

I watched Nate’s tutorial when I first got NLP and scanned the emulsion from the beginning. I really recommend watching the tutorial from the guy who made that thing you just bought, on the website you just bought it from. You know.

thanks for the tips of scanning I will need it as soon as I get me film holder :) still wondering the emotion side of colour negative film is the reversed text(brand) side isn't it?

I have a Sony A7RIII and im thinking about getting the laowa 100 macro with 2:1 magnification. What do you think about that? Would it be a plus in scanning?

I dont have a light controlled space. So I have 1x1,5m blackout fabric that I can wrap around my setup. Kills all reflections 100%.

Hi, were you guys into photography when Kodak had Ektar25 that was the best emulsion ever produced. I have a print 1.5m x .9m made from a 645 neg and there is absolutely no grain what so ever. It’s such a pity they discontinued it.

gorgeous

Why don't you people use a scanner, rather than just photograph the negatives with a camera? I use an inexpensive flat bed Epson scanner. As far as dust and scratches, I use a filter in Photoshop for dust and scratches and then after the filter I add sharpness. I scan at 2400dpi. The color inversion is already part of the scanner driver. You can further enhance the image in Photoshop or Lightroom by doing the same things to the image that you do to conventional digital images. Photographing a negative is not scanning.