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by vivzkestrel - I find it somewhat meditative to scan and edit my 35mm strips. But I also don't very often do that, because I don't take _that_ many pictures and some of them digital. So I shoot maybe 3 rolls per year
- I appreciated the dust removal, briefly tried to run a little side business scanning prints (as glossy prints is all most people have left) and slides with a mirrorless camera + macro lens and dust was one of the issues.
The other was reflections. The camera with its 80MP resolution RAW was great in general, not hard to get better results than an Epson V600 could. The slides were easy, I rigged up a little black box to keep stray light out and backlit with it with a clean source of light, but reflections on glossy prints killed the whole operation. My last idea was taking the photo at an angle so the picture would be angled toward something featureless (and preferably black) and then correcting the perspective in post, but that had the potential to introduce focus issues (my DoF with my setup was roughly 1/32") and maybe slight (probably imperceptible?) differences in resolution across the image. Tried polarizing gels over the light and lens and that reduced the problem but didn't eliminate it.
Some people on YouTube claim to pull off this feat but I think they're either tolerating slight reflections or engaging in magic.
I for one am content to be digital from the start with my images.
Edit: Oh, and keeping prints flat was another engineering undertaking. Glass introduces all kinds of variables, including megatons of dust. I settled on a DIY vacuum box system of sorts with a shop vac, lots of little holes drilled into a box to create some suction to hold a piece flat.
by mrngld - Seeing the Plustek scanner on his desk I was excited that he came up with some physical automation for film strip handling. Alas it's software again.
Again AI exponential curve stops where emptying the dishwasher starts.
by varjag - This is just depressing to me having literally grown up in a darkroom.
"For years my process looked like this: load film and take photos, ....[blah blah blah]... the exported image."
"At first this was an exciting process for me. Then as the number of rolls increased, so did my effort to do this for 36 frames per roll."
I shot black and white film sine the 70's, medium and 35mm. I would develop the negatives and prints myself. The complete process was a joy. I never printed every shot, but I put care into each shot I processed. I was careful when I took a photograph, because the cost limited how much I shot. This made me a better photographer.
I later started scanning my film with a Nikon CoolScan (this was in the late 90's) and i already started hating it. Then I started full digital and now I do not shoot anymore (I was semi professional with Art work published in national magazines).
"My part is now the part I can thoroughly enjoy, which is looking at the results I’ve snapped and finding inspiration to snap more."
Why do any of this just shoot digital if you do not care about the process?
by Noaidi - Very neat. I have a love-hate relationship with a unique type of digital sensor called the Foveon X3, which needs a particular (very sluggish and limited capability) software made by Sigma to convert the RAWs. Recently I have been using AI to create a converter that processes the RAWs in a similar fashion with some improvements.
This is one of those cases where its a means-to-an-end (I just want to take more photos without being bogged down) and less of a project for me to learn how to reverse-engineer and design signal processing pipelines. I am very grateful for what recent models are enabling me to do.
by hankbond - What an odd thing to have a LLM make. There are already plenty of options for existing software for film scanning. I use negPy (https://github.com/marcinz606/NegPy) to scan photos with a digital camera setup, but it interfaces with quite a few film scanners (anything supported by SANE) and handles inversion and editing quite nicely. You can then export to any other software to do image based tagging, though adding dates and location is still going to be somewhat tedious (negPy does have a bulk edit functionality that helps with this).
Also the mouse take-over is no bueno on the site. And some of the fonts are really grainy.
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