Abstract: An improved color photographic printing apparatus which has a video analyzer for viewing a film negative before printing, and has circuitry for controlling the color and density of the image and for controlling the printing times of a photographic printer through a mirror computer to produce a photographic print which is the same as the image seen on the video analyzer.

Abstract: A video color film analyzer including scanning apparatus, employing a flying spot scanner, dichroic mirrors and photomultipliers for scanning a color film and providing green, blue and red video signals representing color composition of the film, and computer circuit for processing the three color video signals over separate computer sections to provide video drive signals to a TV monitor to effect the display of a positive reproduction of the film, the computer sections having a common density control and individual color controls which are adjustable to vary the density and color balance of the displayed picture, and a numeric generator circuit which responds to control outputs of the density and color controls to effect the video display of numerics on the monitor screen, indicating the settings of the controls, for use in setting up a printer for the reproduction of a color negative to a color print.