I haven't seen any thread about this article, which I found really interesting.
I read this article and the PDF with interest. Much appreciated, especially the commitment to testing and comparison, not just finding something that works well-enough. I'm especially delighted to know how to create a linear TIFF from the camera-raw file.
When I've experimented with this, I had trouble getting good color, I thought in part because the raw scan had so much red/organge. I set up a color-head (from a Beseler Dual-mode Slide Duplicator), shot with the strobe illumination and filtration to get a lot of blue to offset the orange mask. With the strobe, filtration at 110C and 60M, I could get a reasonably neutral scan with a setting of 4000K in ACR. Then I inverted and adjusted in Photoshop.
I have a question for the authors (Mark Segal and Todd Shaner): Have you tried illuminating your negatives with bluer lighting so that the color balance adjustments are not so extreme?
Here's a sample for judging color only. Film boxes look OK, but there's plenty of casting (wall, paper towel, bottle). Overall, I was encouraged. I would like to find a reliable way to get reasonable color from a scannerless process.
Again, thanks for the article.