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Dale Kelly
color negative films are designed to make good prints, either on
photographic paper, or motion picture print film
- there is no "scan only" color negative film designed for accurate scene
reproduction
- there is no "film recorder" color negative film designed to work
specifically for a film recorder
while the above are ideals considered in the design of the film, the main
consideration is a good print, and thus the ICC specification for scanning
a color negative film is the characteristic intent of the film when it is
printed
to model a color negative film you must keep in mind there is considerable
processor and printer variability and that the center population of the
film depends on the process and printer used in the design of the film, in
addition, the color negative system as a whole is multi-stage and
considering these things it does not lend itself to a target/fingerprint
characterization
I worked for kodak for 10 years and the following is how they deal with
scanning and recording films in-house:
to make a profile for a color negative scanner:
1) set the scanner to linear transmission or log density if it has a log
amp, any other setting requires unbuilding and introduces encoding noise,
the scan can be consider channel independent exposure if the film is a
perfect scene capture material, which it is not
2) process the transmittance of the film through channel independent
sensitometry lookup table with quadratic interpolation, which models the
contrast of the chemical process, this gives you channel independent ddye
transmission of the negative's dyes
3) process the channel independent dye transmissions of step (2) through an
interimage matrix which models the various layer to layer crosstalk of the
chemical process, there are various considerations of dye wandering and
dye scavenging because of the various dye characteristics or DIR, DIAR dye
couplers introuced into the film to correct for such, or add saturation
4) at this point you have pure dye transmission, add to these
transmittances, the transmittance of the aim optical printer used in the
design of the film, at aim filtration or exposure setup depending if it is
subtractive or additive
5) process these transmittances through the channel independent
sensitometry and interimage matrix of the print media
6) at this point you have pure dye transmittances for the print media's
dye, and using a transmittance to CIE-XYZ model for the dye, you can
encode the colorimetry of the print media
7) apply a colorimtery to appearance model for the XYZ you have since you
will need to consider the viewing conditions of the print media and want
to encode appearance rather than colorimetry in an ICC profile
to appearance onto a color negative film with a film recorder, ask for the
print media's appearance, by building an ICC profile this way
1) know the spectral exposure characteristics of the recorder
2) cascade it through the spectral sensitivity of the film
3) take the cascaded spectral transmittances through the channel
independent sensitometry and interimage for the film
4) process the transmittances through the spectral characteristics of the
film's dyes
5) now through the aim optical printer (at aim setup) transmittances
6) onto the spectral sensitivity of the print media
7) take the cascaded spectral transmittances through the channel
independent sensitometry and interimage for the print media
8) process the transmittances through the spectral characteristics of the
print media's dyes
9) apply a colorimtery to appearance model for the XYZ you have since you
will need to consider the viewing conditions of the print media and want
to encode appearance rather than colorimetry in an ICC profile
photographic paper, or motion picture print film
- there is no "scan only" color negative film designed for accurate scene
reproduction
- there is no "film recorder" color negative film designed to work
specifically for a film recorder
while the above are ideals considered in the design of the film, the main
consideration is a good print, and thus the ICC specification for scanning
a color negative film is the characteristic intent of the film when it is
printed
to model a color negative film you must keep in mind there is considerable
processor and printer variability and that the center population of the
film depends on the process and printer used in the design of the film, in
addition, the color negative system as a whole is multi-stage and
considering these things it does not lend itself to a target/fingerprint
characterization
I worked for kodak for 10 years and the following is how they deal with
scanning and recording films in-house:
to make a profile for a color negative scanner:
1) set the scanner to linear transmission or log density if it has a log
amp, any other setting requires unbuilding and introduces encoding noise,
the scan can be consider channel independent exposure if the film is a
perfect scene capture material, which it is not
2) process the transmittance of the film through channel independent
sensitometry lookup table with quadratic interpolation, which models the
contrast of the chemical process, this gives you channel independent ddye
transmission of the negative's dyes
3) process the channel independent dye transmissions of step (2) through an
interimage matrix which models the various layer to layer crosstalk of the
chemical process, there are various considerations of dye wandering and
dye scavenging because of the various dye characteristics or DIR, DIAR dye
couplers introuced into the film to correct for such, or add saturation
4) at this point you have pure dye transmission, add to these
transmittances, the transmittance of the aim optical printer used in the
design of the film, at aim filtration or exposure setup depending if it is
subtractive or additive
5) process these transmittances through the channel independent
sensitometry and interimage matrix of the print media
6) at this point you have pure dye transmittances for the print media's
dye, and using a transmittance to CIE-XYZ model for the dye, you can
encode the colorimetry of the print media
7) apply a colorimtery to appearance model for the XYZ you have since you
will need to consider the viewing conditions of the print media and want
to encode appearance rather than colorimetry in an ICC profile
to appearance onto a color negative film with a film recorder, ask for the
print media's appearance, by building an ICC profile this way
1) know the spectral exposure characteristics of the recorder
2) cascade it through the spectral sensitivity of the film
3) take the cascaded spectral transmittances through the channel
independent sensitometry and interimage for the film
4) process the transmittances through the spectral characteristics of the
film's dyes
5) now through the aim optical printer (at aim setup) transmittances
6) onto the spectral sensitivity of the print media
7) take the cascaded spectral transmittances through the channel
independent sensitometry and interimage for the print media
8) process the transmittances through the spectral characteristics of the
print media's dyes
9) apply a colorimtery to appearance model for the XYZ you have since you
will need to consider the viewing conditions of the print media and want
to encode appearance rather than colorimetry in an ICC profile