FilmLab: Negative Film Scanner App Reviews

This is by far the most user friendly tool to use.

Simple, does what it says it’s going to do. My project was to digitize old 33 mm negatives. I took pictures of the negatives using my iPhone. I couldn’t figure out how to import the photos to this App so I sent an email asking for help. The next day I received an email with a simple explanation. She even sent me a snapshot of her phone showing me where to find the right buttons. It can’t get any better than that!

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 $2

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!!!

Not 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.

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

Crop seems to be gone (which is a show stopper for me), color adjustments are much more difficult to get right, it’s way less automatic, and just more difficult to use all around. I can see the potential in the new version but it’s not there yet.