dkj Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) I have some Kodak Gold negatives that I want to scan, then develop in Affinity Photo. Is there any point in scanning these negatives so I can open them as 32-bit ROMM-RGB files? (My scanner is capable of producing 48-bit DNG files.) i.e. Would I get any more detail from such a file than from a 16-bit TIFF scan? In other words, I'm not sure how much dynamic range is in a colour negative. Edited February 5, 2021 by dkj Clarity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Probably the whole quality wise also highly depends on your scanning hardware, aka if you use some dedicated scanner device or a DSLR instead here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 @dkj As @v_kyr said, its hardware that counts. You really need dedicated film scanner to get the quality you obviously want. If you have a film scanner then VueScan will do what you want (and more cheaply than SilverFast). I do not know if a 48-bit scan will give you any detectable improvement on a 16-bit scan. Those I have done show no obvious improvemnt. It will also very much depend on the quality of your negatives. You will have to try it yourself with your own film. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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