Hi - like lots of other hipsters, I've been taking film back up and "scanning" the negatives with a digital camera. There are a few things that would make life nicer for this workflow:
- B&W negs - I usually go with JPEG when doing mass conversions just to save space, but obviously that means 8-bit RGB out of the camera. My goal is to maximize bit depth (16-bit grayscale, or even better - half (16-bit) float). To do so my batch input macro converts the doc to 16-bit gray, applies an inversion, then puts a levels adjustment layer on (because I'll almost certainly adding one immediately anyway). I bet there's a better way to do this, and I for one would welcome an in-built Affinity workflow.
- Color negs - doing it by hand is really touchy, and very time-consuming. Most of us don't run LR which means no Neg Lab Pro for us, or at least not in AP. I've tried all the others, and they are BAD. Something right in AP would be AWESOME.