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The pipeline is configurable from the interface itself which helped me a lot on \"guesstimating\". I modeled my personal understanding after darktable's negadoctor feature. Takes the negative and determines a baseline, and with that come the configurations for color, light. The rolls I work with are sometimes funky and they're tinted differently, for example I have this Lomography Metropolis roll thats a bright neo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline"}, {"id": 734489792, "item_id": 45905612, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905612", "by": "tomatocracy", "date": "2025-11-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "have a look at VueScan on the software side", "excerpt": "The slide feeder is good but it's worth being aware that if you have slides mounted on cardboard (I had a lot of old family photos like this I used it for) it will often grab a couple at once. 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The pipeline is configurable from the interface itself which helped me a lot on \"guesstimating\". I modeled my personal understanding after darktable's negadoctor feature. Takes the negative and determines a baseline, and with that come the configurations for color, light. The rolls I work with are sometimes funky and they're tinted differently, for example I have this Lomography Metropolis roll thats a bright neo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline"}, {"id": 734489792, "item_id": 45905612, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905612", "by": "tomatocracy", "date": "2025-11-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "have a look at VueScan on the software side", "excerpt": "The slide feeder is good but it's worth being aware that if you have slides mounted on cardboard (I had a lot of old family photos like this I used it for) it will often grab a couple at once. 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