SOFOBOMO: week one done
M6TTL, 50 Hex, TMY2, Xtol Stock
Kate and I are back from our vacation to Paris, where I started my SOFOBOMO fuzzy month. I’ve now got a pile of film to scan and develop, 10 rolls, four more than I had planned on. I’ve already developed four of those, and the scanner is humming along beside me as a I type. In addition to the usual Raw scan files, I’m also having vuescan output a JPEG with the TMax preset. These JPEGs are dark and low contrast, but they let me quickly eyeball the whole roll without doing one by one conversions of each frame. Hopefully these will help with the editing process, which if all goes well I should be able to start next week. Until then, I’ll be developing and scanning.
A quick vuescan tip. I’ve starting saving my raw files as DNG, then doing the initial processing in Raw Developer. I’ve found it to be much faster and easier than Photoshop, and produces files with nice tonality and sharpness. You can save curves and apply them in batch to save time.
Chris, I’ll give that a look. I’ve tried vuescan’s DNG feature before, but with PS as the processor, it seem to offer no benefits. I can batch curves in PS as well, but all my attempts to create a curve that is worth batching seem to end in frustration.