Scan film the way it
deserves to be scanned.
Epson Scan 2 bakes a bad orange-mask conversion into your negatives that you can't undo. Positive captures a flat, linear, 16-bit digital negative — 120 or 35mm, colour or black & white — and inverts it deliberately, for clean colour every time.
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Linear capture
Drives the V600's transparency unit for a flat, 16-bit scan of 120 or 35mm film, with zero auto-processing — a true digital negative.
Deliberate inversion
Inverts in log-density space, where the orange mask is just a per-channel offset. Sample the film base once and it's gone — cleanly.
Auto frame detection
Finds the frames in your strip automatically, with live per-frame tone, colour, and dust removal.
Archival export
Every frame as a 16-bit TIFF for the archive and a JPEG to share — at full resolution.
How it works
A colour negative's orange mask is a constant per-channel gain in linear space — exactly what auto-white-balance fights and loses to. In density space (d = −log₁₀(transmission)) that mask becomes a constant offset you can simply subtract. Positive samples the clear film base once, removes the mask, and flips the negative — a physically correct inversion. Everything else (tone, temperature, saturation) is taste applied on top.