digitizing a negative

[spoonthegeezer]

Hi troops noob here. I notice under the detail tab is an" invert" button so I thought this might help in digitizing some negatives from years ago. I made a jig and took raw and jpeg shots of a negative using tungsten wb. however even after warming the shot the invert button just turns the shot blue.
Any suggestions.

[Dutchmm]

I haven't done that with ASP. I did have some success scanning the negative using Ed Hamrick's VueScan. I believe you can attach your digital camera to the scanner software, so you might be able to get somewhere with that. It's quite cheap - $40US for the base version - compared with ASP, and multi platform. The $80 professional means you get free updates in perpetuity - are you listening, Greg? - and in fact that come out every three or four weeks. It also deals with every scanner since the flood, so you could use it with a second-hand scanner if your camera experiment fails. Oh, and you can try it out for free, natch! www.hamrick.com

HTH

[spoonthegeezer]

thanks Dutchman, I heard of a program for android smart phones called helmut. available through google play store, apparently turns your phone into a scanner.

[Dutchmm]

Well, I hope that works for you. I would be hesitant because - as much as I mistrust anything electromechanical, any scanner is going to move over the negative at a more consistent speed (or, if you prefer, make a more 1:1 image) than your smartest smartphone.

BTW, not Dutch at all. Simply Dutch MM to distinguish myself from the 28.99 million other MMs in the universe. FMOB, there were 10 of us out of 85000 in the Deloitte mail directory, No, not same initials. Same surname, same christian name!

[R Frydryck]

I would just have your service save your negatives on a disk as a positive tiff. I will be the same quality as you would get as a negative, and not only easier to read, but also color corrected.

[spoonthegeezer]

Thanks all who replied, I tried the helmut program for android, seems you take a pic of the negative then load into phone, open helmut and it will scan and correct then output a jpeg or tiff. not that great but will play around with it. Looks like the scanner method might be better. I have an Epson, few yrs old but should do the trick once I have made up a reflector. Got visitors for a while so experimenting will have to wait.
Igot it dutchmm.