FilmLab: Negative Film Scanner

J’ai payé un abonnement un mois. Rien ne s’enregistre dans le folder. Complètement inutile.

I used this wonderful app to create digital contact sheets of my thousands of color and b/w analog films stored in folders. Now I can conveniently browse all my contact sheets on my computer to find the images to scan.

I tested a good number of "film scanner" apps and this one is the first that manages to get the colours kind of right (which is difficult to do, even under better conditions than that imposed by a phone camera and the rubbish back light I was using), not to speak of doing that as a live preview and then also offering decent editing options (e.g. operating on the white balance colour model that is more familiar to photographers rather than "raw" rgb sliders, or just the simple fact that channels clip in a reasonable way instead of overflowing at the lightest touch of the slider). Well done to the developer(s)! If I might make a suggestion, I would say that the dynamic range as well as the clipping points should be more flexibly adjustable.

Très déçue de cette application ! J’espérais retrouver de vieux souvenirs sur mes négatifs mais en fait l’application sert juste vaguement à distinguer les couleurs. Impossible de retirer quelque chose d’un temps soit peu visible. Un conseil passé votre chemin vous économiserez 7€ !!!

Ne vous attendez pas a des miracles, on distingue tres mal les sujets, et ça reste tres flou, si elle ne coutait pas plus de deux euros peut etre ce serait honnete, mais clairement la c’est du foutage de g.....je ne recommande pas a ce prix.

Application coûteuse et absolument inutilisable et donc inutile ! Incapacité totale à scanner correctement un seul négatif noir et blanc... une perte de temps et d’argent !

With honesty it’s the best app to scan film in all I tried, others are just a joke.. maybe some other are a good tool but needs an hardware. Ok it’s not full HD scans (depends of your device to use it also) but to visualise with real colors (not the blue as always with other apps). Waiting for the evolution but for me it could be the solution to save the price of the sample sheets for all my films (10/13 by months) Congrats

Don’t work, very bad color film conversion.

J’ai suivi Abe pendant les deux années de développement de l’application, impatient de pouvoir enfin scanner mes négatifs. C’est donc avec de grandes attentes que j’ai téléchargé Filmlab dès le premier jour. La déception est immense : zéro résultat, une application sans le moindre tutoriel, etc... Abe: that’s not good enough !

Does a decent job with black-and-white negatives. But it’s missing some major features, including the ability to select a bunch of scans and upload them at one time rather than individually. Also, I don’t see why cannot have manually adjustable exposure. Even better would be if it used the HDR feature on the camera to capture a wide dynamic range so negatives are a slightly under exposed and slightly overexposed all capture perfectly and separated out. Add all these features and it’s worth $25.