Great site. I’ve enjoyed looking at your pictures here. Could you give me some info about how you digitize your pictures? I’m interested in getting into some film photography myself but really don’t know the best way to produce quality digital images from film. Thanks.
Seth, I scan on an old Konica Scan Dual IV. I use VueScan to create raw scan files as tiffs. I invert the tiffs in Photoshop and adjust using levels and curves as necessary. The Scan Dual was a cheap scanner when new five years ago, so I imagine that one of the better flatbeds (Epson V700 maybe) would do just as well. The most difficult part of the process is making the adjustments to the tiffs, but it just takes a little practice and patience.
Thanks for the information. I’ve got access to an Epson 2400 so I might try that before I go out and buy something of my own. Do you scan at the highest possible resolution or do you actually do something lower? I’m just curious because those high-res scans can get to be pretty large files. I’m sure it depends on the scanner, but I was just curious.
I always scan at the highest resolution, and I end up with 22mb tiffs. I can fit over 500 rolls worth of scans on 500GB drive, so the storage requirements are pretty modest.
Great site. I’ve enjoyed looking at your pictures here. Could you give me some info about how you digitize your pictures? I’m interested in getting into some film photography myself but really don’t know the best way to produce quality digital images from film. Thanks.
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Markus, glad you like it.
Seth, I scan on an old Konica Scan Dual IV. I use VueScan to create raw scan files as tiffs. I invert the tiffs in Photoshop and adjust using levels and curves as necessary. The Scan Dual was a cheap scanner when new five years ago, so I imagine that one of the better flatbeds (Epson V700 maybe) would do just as well. The most difficult part of the process is making the adjustments to the tiffs, but it just takes a little practice and patience.
I’m happy to answer any specific questions.
Thanks for the information. I’ve got access to an Epson 2400 so I might try that before I go out and buy something of my own. Do you scan at the highest possible resolution or do you actually do something lower? I’m just curious because those high-res scans can get to be pretty large files. I’m sure it depends on the scanner, but I was just curious.
I always scan at the highest resolution, and I end up with 22mb tiffs. I can fit over 500 rolls worth of scans on 500GB drive, so the storage requirements are pretty modest.