4. Frames from the camera negative
35mm stills scanner - 8 BIT 1800dpi
Cineon Genesis film scanner - 2k 10 BIT
5. Converting logarithmic file format (.cins) to linear file format (.tiff)
Frame selected from the faded print (left) , when corrected with Cineon
software and exported as TIFF format, looks washed-out (right)
TIFF version with further
corrections in Photoshop
6. TIFF image converted back to a Cineon file
contrast excessively heightened
Duplicate Cineon frame
adjusted in Cineon to
match
TIFF to Cineon conversion
(above left)
Frame to the left exported and
saved as TIFF
No correction in Photoshop
7. Graded scan of the
film print
Cineon Genesis
scanner settings
R -12 G -6 B-14
Graded using
Cineon software
9. Frames from the print
Cineon Genesis film scanner. Colour correction in Cineon and Photoshop
Frame from the print with deterioration on
the right (above image). My supervisor
removed this with a mask using
Speedgrade software
20. The project was completed at PresTech Laboratories under the
supervision of Joao De Oliveira and Saulo Del Mar
With thanks to Kieron Webb, at the BFI, for arranging the loan of
the print and camera negative