[Scanning negatives with DSLR's. Handling in Photo?]

2 minutes ago, AlainP said:

I didi that a little more than a year ago. I made a lightbox and a stand and took a picture of each and every photograh I had using my DSLR. Then I did the same for hundered of color slides. It took a while but I does a much better job than with the HP scanner I had with the negative and slide adaptor.

I took all pîctures in JPG and used Affinity Photo for cropping and levels adjustments. But I think the most useful tools were the inPainting and Healing Brushes..... there is so much dust and particles on those pictures and slides once zoomed on your screen. Before each photo I cleaned them with a brush and a blower, but there is still a lot left. It's tedious job but it's worth it. Now all family members have copy of those pictures.

Do you still use that method? And what camera lens setup did you use out of curiosity? I've only got an EOS4000D & a Sigma 105 macro lens. Everything seems pretty deadset on using a macro lens

[Scanning negatives with DSLR's. Handling in Photo?]

Can it be done? I'm very much into my film photography and I'd love to be able to self scan my photos without using a scanner.

There are a fair few plugins for Lightroom to do this, but I'm not seeing much \ anything for Affinity Photo.

[Command line batch processing automation?]

On 6/1/2020 at 11:29 AM, R C-R said:

If you are on a Mac, it should be possible to do this much using Automator or AppleScript & maybe a folder action script. I have never tried it but it seems relatively easy to use the Disk-Folder-File Suite of app System Events to enumerate the contents of ejectable media looking for files with the CR2 extension & then move them to one or more designated local folders, perhaps in the Pictures folder.

The tricky part would be making it relatively bulletproof by including error checking for anything that might prevent the move or overwrite existing files.

I'm doing this with Windows. Though when Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) supports USB devices, then that'll be much easier as I'm pretty comfortable with bash scripting through work

[Command line batch processing automation?]

8 hours ago, v_kyr said:

• RAWTherapee CLI
• For automated copy use things like rsync/xcopy and some timed cron jobs

I like that RAWThearapee is cross platform. Cheers!

Shame Affinity Photo doesn't have CLI functionality

[Command line batch processing automation?]

It's doing this via command line I'm after. I know how to do it manually, but I'm trying to script it. 

I don't want to touch a user interface throughout this process. 

[Command line batch processing automation?]

So I'm trying to automate copying the .CR2 files from my SD card to my file storage at the moment. I'd also like to automate processing them into JPG's as well, so it makes viewing the photo's easier.

Can this be done?