05/26/2026
To all of my film and hybrid shooters out there, Capture One added film negative conversion to its software. It’s been out for a minute but I’m just now trying it out on some old scans. If you scan your film with your camera, this might be something to check out. I haven’t shot film in a long time, and after I convert my negatives typically I just keep the positive and delete out all of the negative files to save room on my hard drive. So I had to dig a little bit to find some negatives I had scanned with my Fuji camera from a few years back. I just thought I’d post a few examples. So the first three images are from a senior session a couple years ago. I shot the first three images on Kodak Gold. The fourth one was shot on Fuji 400 H and the last two were shot on Kodak Portra. I finished the images in Photoshop. The downside of DSLR scanning is there’s no dust cleanup like there is with film scanners. Prior to Capture One my main conversion technique was using Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom, which is very very good piece of software. If you already use Capture One, this works great, but if you are looking into finding an option where you don’t have to buy a plug-in, then Capture One might be a good choice. I just wanna let you know I don’t make any money off of Capture One. I’m just putting the information out there for those who might be interested. Personally, I prefer Capture One over Lightroom. I think that it doesn’t much better job and how it handle the RAW files in my opinion. For fun I made a little poll below. Let me know which you prefer Capture One or Adobe Lightroom? Anyways I just thought I’d share. 🙏🙏
