Move scanned images to ~/Photos/Film/name, where name is the name of the
film.
Move scanned images to ~/Photos/date/orig, where date is guessed based on
the information in the exposure log.
Add comment file ABOUT to the directory, including load date, film type, exposure
sensitivity and index in negative album.
After naming files, update Makejpeg with the exposure details, then
run createexif.php to add the Exif data.
Processing
Convert all images, also the useless ones, so that it's easier to count.
Sequencing: imageorder orig/*.jpg
Background
As I go through my 1964 diary, I'm re-scanning the photos
I took at the time. I had already scanned them with the ill-fated Canon
9900F scanner, but I can do better now.
Which are useful? I've established that “Backlight Correction” improves the shadows, and
for colour photos “Color Resotration” really does help a lot. And the others? Grain is
always a problem in old films (here Kodak Plus-X Pan), so I do that too. And the dust is
everywhere, so how about “Dust Removal”? Ah, that's an old, worn-out magic word (so why is
it there?). The new one is “DIGITAL ICE Technology”.
Is one of these causing my problems? Went through most combinations, and found that colour
restore didn't do much, though it did slightly darken the image:
In the images above, as well as many below, run the cursor over an
image to compare it with its neighbour. As expected, backlight correction
improved things:
But there are other issues. Not all of the dust appears to be dust, and there are artefacts
that appear at random, here visible on the shutters in front of Ananda's face. They're
present in both images, but in different places:
That looks like an issue with the scanner or the software, possibly related to the dust
removal. Given the quality of the originals, I can live with that.
