7 February, 2025
Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
Today there are many options for converting colour and b&w negatives to positives that combine hardware and software. In contrast to now, when I embarked on this journey, th...
1 December, 2024
DSLR Scanning on a Budget: Unlock Stunning Results with an Affordable Enlarger Lens
You can fall in quite a huge rabbit hole if you read about scanning negatives with your mirrorless or DSLR camera, lots of people recommend different lenses. You easily can spen...
4 October, 2024
From Negative to Positive in Colour – My Experience & Workflow
A method for inverting colour negatives in software.
22 September, 2024
How I achieve Good scans with a DIY rig
There have been frequent mentions on this website about scans of negatives, ranging from professional labs to table-top models. I’m going to describe my experiences using a loca...
While there is much interest in scanning with a digital camera, there are other ways of scanning negatives: using a lab or home-scanning with a dedicated scanner. Scanning with ...
Whenever we use a camera to record a scene, we are transforming analog signals. Each element introduces yet another error, albeit small.
The perfect is the enemy of the good
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What is the future of scanning at home going to look like? We will explore the future of home scanning thoroughly by looking at the history of film scanning, discussing how scan...
29 September, 2022
For Quick Film Scans, Try an Olympus C-8080WZ!
An old friend recently asked if I could digitize some 35mm slides of a coastal Maine motel her family once owned. She’d researched the commercial cost of scanning, and before bi...