# Questions about Camera Scanning a large archive

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**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [April 16, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/questions-about-camera-scanning-a-large-archive/7684 "2024-04-16T17:04:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/questions-about-camera-scanning-a-large-archive/7684/6 "2024-04-16T23:11:12Z")

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> [@Harry](#):
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> I think you’ll have very few transparencies where the dynamic range of the transparency will be limiting in any meaningful way.

Yes, that is what I found too. Transparencies have a wider dynamic range and that can cause issues when printing. As for camera scanning and converting, dynamic range of transparencies have not been an issue up to now in my case.

Transparencies don’t need NLP, but they can be improved, at times, following this hint:

> [@Improve old transparencies with Negative Lab Pro](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/improve-old-transparencies-with-negative-lab-pro/2983):
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> I’ve just tried something. I’ve inherited a load of transparencies that date back as far as 1950ct. Most of the older transparencies have shifted colours due to age, storage and whatever other causes might exist. I wanted to see if I can use NLP’s internal process to improve the overall appearance of the transparencies. This is what I did changed orientation and cropped to taste adjusted WB and the RGB tone curve created a virtual copy inverted the RGB tone curve launched NLP This is what I…

Sometimes, and mostly with Kodachromes, the effect of said procedure is less obvious or absent:

 ![Bildschirm 2024-04-17 um 01.00.01](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/8/8dc5d3c735ad6d4b3bfcc7f3593e498ed7e10dda.jpeg)  
Original scan (left) and positive created by NLP from an internegative (right)  
Although the lower LH corner seems to be drowned in the screens above,  
details can be retrieved, e.g. with local adjustment, as we can see below:  
 ![Bildschirm 2024-04-17 um 01.18.14](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/8/84f42c11309d7e9468526684ecd1fcd5c3f37826.jpeg)

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