If you are digitizing with a Canon SLR, their RAW converter has "Faithful" profile which serves the same purpose. It is not the default, so make sure to select it, it's not bad. Lightroom comes with "Adobe Neutral" profile for all cameras it supports, by the way.
Regular color profiles are optimized for what a human eye finds pleasing, which obviously goes out the window during color inversion. You need a "neutral" color profile for your scanning device, whatever that is. The moral is if you want "the film look" use slide filmĬorrect.
I do no further digital processing (apart possibly for resizing if I'm e-mailing someone a copy). I apply the negafix profiles in Silverfast and then write the jpeg to disk. If I do my own scanning I use a scanner and Silverfast.
If you use negative film you will need to use some software or process to invert the negative and apply a set of default values for the colour profile. The digital image should then be a faithful copy of the slide. If you use slide film you can use a IT-8 profile on your scanner (or camera scanner) and apply that. Is the only way to preserve these characteristics to do a print from my negative? How do you maintain the fidelity of film over to the digital side once it’s scanned? I don’t want to apply an Adobe color profile to, say Portra 400. It occurred to me that, once a film negative is scanned, and brought in to Lightroom for example, a color profile must be applied.īut, there is the issue for me. So one of the whole points of shooting film for me, is the unique color and characteristics.