I had an old website for several years. I talked about it here a little bit already but for a little more context I used it up until around 2009 or so and then it hung around for another year…
read moreAs I was discovering that my scanning project was working exactly the way I intended I started to think about what the next project would be that I could follow this up with. It had been a while since I…
read moreI’ve spent too many words rambling on about this already so here’s the last bit on this larger scale (to me) scanning project: This project was a whole lot of work and much more physically demanding than I thought it…
read moreI’d thought this through as part of planning on how to complete this archive scanning project: how would I incorporate my new film scans into this archive and keep everything well organized. It was actually pretty easy. Remember the twin-check…
read moreWhile I was organizing the negatives I also got the rest of my equipment together and Negative Supply delivered on their 120 carrier via kickstarter. Here’s everything I ended up using: Camera: Fuji X-Pro2 (24mp APS-c mirrorless digital camera) Lens:…
read moreI’d been using Adobe Lightroom Classic for the last few years and couldn’t find a reason to switch to something else for this project. I also tarted using the excellent Lightroom Plugin Negative Lab Pro, without which I wouldn’t have…
read moreI was pretty excited that there was what appeared to be a viable 120 film carrier coming my way but this is the meant that I was going to need to figure out a bunch things that I was dreading.…
read moreOver the course of 2019 I finally decided I wanted to try out camera scanning. I wasn’t in a hurry, I figured I’d spend a couple of months figuring out a plan and then try to get everything together in…
read moreFrom ~2004 up until around 2020 I scanned all of my film using an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. I used it for 35mm, 120, 4×5, and 8×10. At the time I bought it it was one of the best (consumer…
read moreAs a long time film photographer in both the pre-digital and digital camera eras I eventually came to understood that having a reliable end-to-end developing|scanning|printing workflow was key to my enjoyment of photography. It sounds like boring monotony to put…
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