Analog.Cafe Podcast s2/e3 “Rethinking Film Inversions with film Q.”
Daren and I get nerdy about film scanning and negative inversions. We talk about the current options (Silverfast, VueScan, NLP, and others) and why they didn’t work for me. Then I did a live demo of a web app I built that fixes those problems.
But what is a live demo without a moment of embarrassing technical difficulties? The app, which was still in development, broke during the podcast, so I had to fix it on air while sweating bullets. 😅
You get to witness a bit of that drama, as well as Daren’s genuine reaction, as we tested this big update to film Q.
Because film Q is so different from the rest of the film inversion tools out there, I explain why it’s basically a web page, how it can process large high-quality TIFF and RAW scans in batches, and why it has only one button (which I think is all you need).
Please note that I misspoke when I said that film Q works with Windows 95. What I meant is that it works on Windows XP — still a very old, unsupported OS released in 2001.
Dmitri Edited