Film Scanning Archives

7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

28 July, 2025

SmartConvert – Inverting negatives smartly

By Marco Andrés

There are many methods to scan and convert film negatives into positives. One common method is to scan into a raw file with a scanner or, more commonly, a digital camera. The pr...

19 February, 2025

Adventures with my 50-year-old OM-1 and some new issues with scanning

By Art Meripol

This was going to be about my old original Olympus OM-1 but it really just reflects a journey that might feel familiar to many within the world of film photography today… ...

1 December, 2024

DSLR Scanning on a Budget: Unlock Stunning Results with an Affordable Enlarger Lens

By Markus Hofstätter

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...

22 September, 2024

How I achieve Good scans with a DIY rig

By Jeffery Luhn

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...

8 August, 2024

Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning

By Dave Powell

In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...

18 April, 2024

Going Analog on Okinawa – Part III – Scanning Misadventures

By David Tan

This is part three in a series, you can find part two here I had a work trip to the Tokyo area recently – which meant I brought along my Nikon F2S with 50mm mounted and a 28mm s...

22 October, 2023

Digitisation – a tale of a film scanning options rabbit hole

By MichaelWPlant

This is my first article for 35mmc, so hi to everyone in this community. Recently I got myself a shiny new Leica M-A film camera (more on this in another article). And then I fo...

Kodachromeguy on Coney Island with A Tele-Rolleiflex
Don't resist. Just go buy one! It will be good for you.
Chuck Young on Mamiya-6 Automat – GAS ATTACK!!!
Geoff: Thanks for your amusing narrative. I have had good luck with my old RF cameras. Betcha that some black…
Walter Reumkens on Coney Island with A Tele-Rolleiflex
Great photos and beautifully written article.

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