RainerWille Dear FOTOIMPEX community, I’ve been conducting exposure on film rolls again for a year now (medium format and 35mm). However, as I’m also a fan of digital photo editing, I’d like to digitise the negatives. I was thinking of using a service provider: send in the film rolls, have them developed, download the digital photos (TIFF), and have the negatives sent back. Does such a service exist? Is it worth it / is it still affordable? Do you use such services? How do you digitise your film? Best regards, Rainer Wille
TR I also digitise my own work. However, this requires a certain amount of expertise. In particular, you shouldn’t leave the ‘post-production’ to the software (‘scanner’); instead, you should adjust the tonal range, gradient and filtering yourself, especially when producing a series of images. Just like in the darkroom. I therefore scan in “raw” format first and then edit the images very precisely afterwards using a “proper” image-editing programme. If I were to have the scanning done for me, I would always specify that I only want “full-scale raw data”, without it having been altered by anyone else or, indeed, by the aforementioned “computer automation”.
