I'm not really old enough to have a huge collection of negatives (my first SLR was digital), but my relatives have some. I fear it will take too much time from me, as I will not be shooting film exclusively, and I already spend quite some time in Lightroom hehe.įoTom, I recently had an idea similar to yours. I guess I'll try and if it doesn't work with my own workflow, I'll ditch it and resort to a lab and scan them myself.
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Professional scans don't fit into my workflow or my budget.Thank you for this information, I'll be reading more about this and at first glance it does seem fairly simple and not as expensive as I thought it would be. It's good, not great, but I've yet to find a cheaper solution. I scan with an Epson film scanner, can't tell you the model because I'm not at home right now, but it does MF as well as 35mm.
For color negs or slides there are a few more chemicals and temperature is more critical, but you still don't need a darkroom to develop your film, once it's in the tank you can work in daylight. For B&W, I use Rodinal for my developer, and Formulary TF5 for my fixer. You can actually get it down to two chemicals, developer, a water stop bath, and fixer, and then I like to add photo-flo to the final rinse, but you don't need a separate storage bottle for that. You don't need a darkroom to push or pull your film, just a changing bag, a tank and a few bottles for chemistry. You can find lots of good info regarding labs, developing, scanners, and scanning in this forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom. But in the end, you'll have the original negative to get a higher resolution scan if you need it. The lab can provide scans at the time of developing, however resolution may vary by lab. But the scanning, that's normally done with the film. Sorry, I can't help you on the push/pull issue. I can't wait for my film camera to get here ^_^Welcome (back) to film!
I can't wait for my film camera to get here ^_^ I'd be silly to think I'm the only one approaching film photography this way, so I hope you guys can share some insights and thoughts on what I'm planning to do, maybe I'm wrong about something, or some tips to make it better? My prints are typically 8x12 and 11x16, so having a digital file of an analogue photo is perfectly acceptable -not to mention desirable, for me. I want it this way because I know that, in the end, a) I will want my photos online, and b) to re-print them, having a digital file is just easier nowadays. So what do you guys do if a lab won't do push/pull on a film? How do you scan your photos, do you scan the film itself or a print? I'm thinking of working with some sort of film/digital hybrid: shoot film, scan an uncopressed image from the negative, "develop" in Lightroom. I don't have a darkroom, and I will not build one. One of the things I've come across in my mind is developing film.
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Also because it's my cheap alternative to full frame
Now I just bought an inexpensive Vivitar film SLR, a K1000 clone and I want to start/return to shooting film, not exclusively, but more like as another tool in my bag. My first SLR was digital, so even though I've shot hundreds of film rolls, I don't know anything about film. The truth is I was never technical about it. I stopped shooting film many many years ago when I bought my first digital camera. Hello Film Pentaxians, I'm glad to say I'm back to shooting film.
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