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✓ It Works Well!Followed this from Kickstart a few years back and finally found I needed the app. I used it to convert my parent’s wedding negatives(1973) to positive color without any issues. I thought they were great quality and definitely sufficed for bringing back memories. I did have to crop each photo even though I zoomed to the correct size, but it was easy enough. I used a few rolls of tape to set my phone on the actual rolls to find the focus height and keep it steady. Some feature suggestions: import negative and a timer option during taking the picture(2secs would be good). Not sure if these are an option or not..Version: 1.5.0
✓ Works greatI just installed the app, and it works well. Great for getting a quick overview and quickly sharing images. I’m sure with a bit of practice the results will be even better, but I am very happy to have this app as a resource. Thanks Abe!.Version: 1.0
✓ Way to go!I am already loving using the app. Can wait to see the future developments you guys are working on..Version: 1.0
✓ Take your time:)Please be a little patient and discover an amazing app!! It works great if you put your negative against a light source, you’ll be amazed!!!.Version: 2.5.3
✓ Great! Enjoying this so farI loved using this app to look at old family negatives, so much easier than using just the phone camera. I played with it using my iPad as the light source but I can see where a regular light box would be much better. Looking forward to playing with it more! Thanks for building this..Version: 1.1
✓ This app does wonders.I usually don’t write reviews but I was able to achieve excellent results with this app. The quality of the photos are great enough for me. I was afraid of buying it, but it’s worth every penny. I definitely recommend..Version: 1.5.0
✓ ExcitedI have been waiting for the final app for sometime. Very excited and I am impressed on how well it works. My problem is the lightbox I use may be the wrong type of lighting because I get lines across the finish image. I cannot figure this out.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Great appI hesitated at first with some of the negative responses. I got it and immediately loved it. I am an amateur photographer from the 60’s with hundreds of pounds of negatives that mostly were only contact printed for review, with many more that I never found the time to print. Now I can without setting up a lab. I use my iPad as a light box, with a common sheet protector over it to diffuse the pixels; you know what a sheet protector is; a common article in any office, fits in a 3 ring binder, protects paper from finger dirt. Works perfect. Don’t expect lab quality, but you will be happy when you resurrect a forgotten negative into an enjoyable picture. I’m getting my old enlarger from the attic to project negative images to a screen, to see just how far this app will go..Version: 1.1
✓ Shows promiseShows promise. Some written documentation would be nice, even if it’s just to say what features did or didn’t make it into the current version vs the previews..Version: 1.1
✓ Worth every pennyI never write reviews. I have spent my entire life without reviewing any app I’ve ever downloaded. But this app is faultless. Yes, I was hesitant at first as it only had two reviews that were both rated low. But these people were trying to use an iPad to illuminate their negatives. With a proper light box/light pad, the app performs exactly as expected and out classes any of the free apps on the store. The level of adjustments you get, especially for black and white negatives is perfect, and all of my images have come out better than expected. It has truly spurred me on to keep pursuing film photography. Thank you app maker!.Version: 1.3.2
✓ Best in the game!Clearly this isn’t an ideal way to scan film, but this is by far the best mobile app in the game for scanning negatives to tweak on your phone and post online. Once I understood that cropping adjusts the leveling, I have loved the results I’ve gotten. Not too shabby, and good enough for Instagram. Thanks for making this 🙏🏾.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Groundbreaking, awesome, still needs some workEveryone who has spent hours on trying to properly scan film on a flatbed scanner knows the pain. This app has attempted the unimaginable. And the developer has succeeded in many ways, so he and his work deserve a lot of praise. The app still needs some work though, a bit clunky at times, but hey, it’s v1.1 and you can still get some superb results in seconds!.Version: 1.1
✓ Works for meI have a lot of family photos dating back to the 20s, and a lot of B&W negatives that nobody has seen in years, if ever. These are in several odd formats and are mostly separate images, no nice neat strips. I use an iPad as backlight and FilmLab takes care of the rest. It usually locks in with the correct exposure, if not it’s easy to correct with the settings. I then edit each image in the standard iPhone photo editor, mainly just crop and rotate. It’s not high end, but these images are taken on crude box cameras. Biggest complaint is that there’s no instructions or support, but I haven’t had any issues yet..Version: 1.1
✓ Great Start !!!I am happy to see people still believing on film and its aesthetic by providing such tools! Saves time to use this app than capturing multiple frames yourself and then using a more advanced desktop app to stack them. I would love to see more features to be added in the future!.Version: 1.0
✓ Great up. Excited for updatesWorks well. Would be awesome to be able to take photos outside the app and then open them in app to make conversations. Will be trying different levels of backlight intensity to see what yields the best results. Excited for future updates!.Version: 1.0
✓ Excellent appNot sure why this app has poor reviews. I have tried the other negative scanning apps in the App Store and FilmLab works the best. It scans negatives with a clean and easy to use interface. It has just the right amount of tools and will save a Tiff file. It doesn’t have the intrusive magic filters or colorizing features that are always in your face. It’s a solid straightforward app..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Second attemptAt first wasn’t really impressed, but tried it with a cheap light I bought - And results were pretty good.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Love it!I use this on both my iPad and my Mac Studio. Does a great job of converting DSLR scanned negatives to a positive - and so easy to use!.Version: 2.5.3
✓ Amazing!This is such a simple idea but with this app and a light box I’ve been able to transform my work as an archivist. Now I can see all the negatives in my collection so easily with the positive colours. So much easier to identify the subject matter 😊.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Latest version much betterIt’s much improved, and has better export options etc ..Version: 2.0.1
✓ AwesomeWorks great and absolutely fills a need. Have no idea why the few negative reviews. Thank you for the terrific app that works beautifully..Version: 1.1
✓ Excellent, but takes a while to get used to.A few weeks ago, I misread the instructions and thought I had been locked out before I had even started. Please, please ignore my cynical one star review if you come across it. This app is actually the one I have been hoping for for years. I have a collection of medium format negatives which are too large to fit in my film scanner which is 35mm. The only option for me would have been to purchase a medium format negative scanner, which are expensive and bulky; plus are difficult to source online these days. This app works almost perfectly, but just takes a bit of getting used to. At the moment I use a plain white laptop screen as a backdrop to taking the photos with an iphone11. This does cause some interference with the screen refresh rate, but moving the phone a little back from the screen does make a difference. It is just a case of trial and error. Also the exposure of the negative can affect the interference. Again, patience will bring rewards. I am going to purchase a negative light box, which I believe will improve the results, but until then 90% of the laptop screen results are quite acceptable. I can see the images at last, many of which are from the 1950s. Wonderful. Thanks to Abe and all at FilmLab for developing this app. I can’t thank you enough, and sorry for my earlier review rant..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Great way to view negativesWhile this app is not a substitute for printing or scanning negatives, it is a great way to see a positive image if you have a light box. I’ve had very good results with this app for medium format negatives. The only improvement I can suggest is a change to the cropping function (so that two adjustment control points can be moved together). Overall a really nice way to see your negatives after development..Version: 1.2.1
✓ No way to import external scans or photos?This app is great for what it does and I love that I can adjust the crop box and correct some misalignment later. I was hoping it had a feature where I could bring in my raw scans from a camera or scanner and flip those files for a quick look at old scans also. Is that feature available and I just can’t find it? Thanks for all the hard work. Even without import this is a better quick film scanner than the others!.Version: 1.1
✓ Works for me tooFew things: If you use an ipad as backlight, even with later models you can see pixels. Light plates are not too expensive though. There is a scanner adapter made by lomo that will keep the negatives flat and while I haven‘t tried that over concerns of scratching I feel you need something like that You will need to make an effort to keep your phone aligned with the negative, I use a small table tripod Otherwise the app does what I thought it would do. The option to apply the inversion to existing pics in the photo app would be great.Version: 1.1
✓ Quite good, could use a few more features 🎞️Great for editing film scans :) Bring along a good light box / scanning method and you’ll be good. Some more settings would be great: sharpening is a must for complete scans. Having a way to save a preset bunch of settings to batch apply would be great also for roll consistency. This applies to the Mac desktop version also! Thanks!.Version: 2.5.3
✓ Don’t expect a high resolution scanI think what this app does best is give you a chance to preview negatives. The capturing I tried to do left my images grainy and not exposed too well but the preview looked fantastic. If you need an app that can give you a preview before you scan entire rolls of film this is a great tool if you’re trying to avoid getting a real scanner or taking them to get scanned this is not the app for you.Version: 1.1
✓ While it workedI liked this app because i have black and white negatives that i didn’t have pictures to match. The one thing i would have liked was to save the picture that i zoomed in on instead of having to crop it then save. But now the camera won’t work so i am back to square one. I have deleted that app and reinstalled but it still doesn’t work. ☹️.Version: 1.6.0
✓ My experience after reading all reviews and testing it!So I saw a lot of one star reviews and I feel like I should say something. I downloaded on two different iPhones X and the iPhone S and the issue with the image flickering and giving weird colors is very annoying and it showed on both devices. When you take the picture of the negative sometimes it will give you a weird exposure. However when I go to crop the picture every time I move the crop corners the pictures gets better and better. When you’re done cropping you will have a fully exposed picture that you can adjust all the basics necessary on the edit section. Is the app the most high definition scan? No however I’m taking a picture of a picture with a phone, but it does the job much better than the other free ones I downloaded. My set up was my iPad far enough to lose the pixels in a box and my phone on a tripod. I got really good results for Instagram isn’t all we want anyway right? So I don’t think the one star review is indicative of the performance of the app. I did expect for 6 bucks the app to be on the efficient side and not have those basic issues especially because one of the selling points is “the app recognizes the negative and transforms into a positive.” But all and all I’m a hobby film photographer and it does what I needed to do before moving on to pro things..Version: 1.2.1
✓ A simple tool with great resultsI have used this app since backing it on Kickstarter. It has come a very long way since then. It’s a simple enough tool that can produce good if not great results. Keep in mind the results largely depend on the quality of negative or slide you are scanning. Pair this app with a consistent flat light source (like an iPad using a tracing app) and some sort of jig to hold your phone the right distance away and you have a reasonably simple set-up for digitizing your memories. One final hint, use the self timer to trigger the exposure to avoid camera blurr..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Works great as a film previewI use it all the time at work to show customers a preview of what their negatives will look like before they’re scanned. For the most part it is pretty accurate to the black and whites. On older negatives it sometimes has a hard time reading it if the colored have started to fade. Besides that it’s perfect, I tell all my film buddies about it..Version: 1.5.0
✓ Love this app!Great and easy to use, also results are great everytime.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Works perfectly!I put my negative on a light table, pointed my phone at it, and it worked like magic!.Version: 1.3.2
✓ Great app but needs some improvementI have 40 yr old slides of my kids so I LOVE this concept. I used my laptop computer screen for a light box. I laid the screen flat, cranked up the light setting, and opened up a plain Word doc. Typed a line across the page so I could position the slide evenly. Voila! I wish there was an erase, delete, or back button on the app. Maybe I’m using it wrong but it seems my only option after snapping the photo is to save it somewhere. Also, the photo comes out with a fine screen grid behind it. But maybe it’s from my computer screen? The photos also come out grainy, whereas the originals aren’t. Again, that may be from using my laptop screen for a light box. But it’s still wonderful for what I’m using it for! I was getting ready to toss my old slides before I found this..Version: 1.1
✓ Try this app!I don’t really understand the reviews for this app or what people expect a phone scan to look like. This app is by far better than any other negative conversion app (if you have good lighting behind the negative). To be fair I am using and enlarger with no lens as my light source but I’ve had some amazing scans for a phone with this app that I don’t even mind posting. Honestly this app worked so well this is the only review I’ve ever left for any app.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Great StartA fantastic start to a very promising app. Yes there may be alternative ways of doing what FilmLab does but it’s fantastic to see people like Abe giving us fantastic alternatives. Cheers👍🏻.Version: 1.0.1
✓ AmazingI just started using this app! What an amazing, efficient, and simple to use application! I have thousands of negatives I have wanted to convert to digital but have held off due the the cost of outsourcing or the equipment required. This app changes everything! Kudos to the software developers..Version: 1.6.0
✓ I Love this App!My husband has been in the photography business for 45+ years. The 1 thing that we had was our wedding on 2 1/4 inch square negatives (old school). I waited over a year for this App to be finished. I wanted my wedding on computer. I am thrilled to have it. We have hundreds of old square negatives of when my husband was young. Having these negatives printed would cost a lot. This App allows us to put these pics on our computer. I wouldn’t take anything for it..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Does what is says; nothing moreFirst, you NEED a backlight for this to work. Then, it only takes grainy “photos” of your negatives. But, this is still very useful if you’re trying to figure out which of your 1000+ negatives to print. It’s handy for quickly viewing negatives as positives. If your want hi-res “scans” to print, use a flatbed scanner or a dedicated film scanner. But that takes a lot of time. I wish this had a tutorial. Not sure what the difference between 1/50 and 1/60 is. Shutter speed? Who knows? This app really needs a tutorial instructing how to adjust the backlight and the ambient light. It’s a mystery. Worth the $6? Depends on your purpose..Version: 1.1
✓ FinallyI’ve been following this app in the newsletters for what seems like decades. I had just missed the Kickstarter and I have been desperate to get a hold of this since then. I will update this review and score after having some more time to play with it, but thank you. Thank you for getting this out into the wild..Version: 1.0
✓ Simple but effectiveI was looking for a quick way to view or proof my negatives while in the field and not near my scanner. This app is a quick simple way to view film negatives and get a feeling for what your negative may give you when printed or worked up in a mor traditional work flow. This is not really a replacement for a good digital scanner but more a tool to use when you don’t have your scanner or want to do a quick check on what your negatives may give you. Thanks for such a great portable way to check negatives. I hope it will have other updates to increase quality and coloring of the image..Version: 1.0
✓ Awesome AppI have another app on my phone for scanning negatives but I was never happy with the results. So glad I found this app. It does a great job, thank you!.Version: 1.5.0
✓ Does a great job converting without much effortMy workflow consists of scanning a TIFF file with Epson Scan and the Epson V550. I import the negatives into iCloud and then access them through Film Lab Pro. My only grip is that there is no way to export the files as TIFF for further uncompressed editing in Lightroom. Film Lab Pro solved my cheap computer problem. My computer will run Epson scan but it is not capable of running Lightroom..Version: 2.0.1
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