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Gear Talk => Processing & Publication => Topic started by: richardHaw on October 15, 2017, 15:52:29

Title: Using Nikon Picture Control for digitizing film.
Post by: richardHaw on October 15, 2017, 15:52:29

http://richardhaw.com/2017/10/13/negative-digitization-with-a-nikon-dslr/

Sharing my Nikon PC's settings for download here. It has been working OK for me so far. Not perfect but not shabby at all :o :o :o

Title: Re: Using Nikon Picture Control for digitizing film.
Post by: arthurking83 on October 15, 2017, 20:53:15

The picture controls from the Nikonpc.com site doen't fully work as Nikon have set them up too.
That is, if you use any of their PC styles for negative digitization, you can only ever achieve tone reversal on camera, never colour reversal.
Same with using them on Nikon's software, which also use Picture Controls as the intial start point for tone curve. They don't work.

If you have Nikon's ViewNX2 or ViewNX-i installed, they also install Nikon's Picture Control Editor.
This method of editing Picture Controls for use on camera is more accurate, in that as you edit them, that's how they also work on camera.

hence why my disappointment in the D850's digitizer feature mentioned in that 'other thread'.

Title: Re: Using Nikon Picture Control for digitizing film.
Post by: richardHaw on October 16, 2017, 02:11:28

Hello, Arthur
 Not sure if I get you completely. it works OK for me so far, I get reversed images on my LCD :o :o :o
Yes, the D850 gimmick was quite a let-down ::)

Title: Re: Using Nikon Picture Control for digitizing film.
Post by: arthurking83 on October 16, 2017, 12:32:45

OK, I'm curious what camera?
Colour reversed too or just tones.
How did you upload the picture control to the camera?

BTW: for me, colour reversed picture control doesn't work on D300 and D800E.
I only recently got a D5500(for daughter mainly) but haven't tried on that yet.