Hello! I’m back again. It was busy for me lately, but here
I’m. The last time I was talking about how I developed my first roll of b&w
film. This story is about how a newbie digitalized his first roll of film.
I was describing in previous columns about how was my first
contact with analogue photography. I quickly learned how to develop film on my
own, but then I was left with developed roll of film with no clue what to do
whit it. The enlarger and darkroom printing was for me still in clouds of, at
that time, unknown future. At that time I have had no means of my own to view or
scan the film, so the first move was that I went to the local quick lab, to scan
my roll of film. Because unfortunately it was the nonstandard 120 format film,
it could not be scanned on the fuji machine. But I was reassured that they could
scan the film on the flatbed scanner. The result was disappointed for me. Not
that I wanted or even that I could expect extreme quality from my first roll of
film taken with Agfa Isola 1 and developed in the bathroom.
I was not happy but I didn’t know any better. The next time
I asked if they can scan the film in the best possible quality. I got this.
Then I realized that the person who is scanning my film has
no clue how to scan a film on a flatbed scanner. And for the results I was
getting it was very expensive. I quickly made a calculation that a scanner will
pay off in scanning only 20 of 120 format films.
After my first encounter with analogue photography I was
beginning to shoot with cameras with more “standard” film format. This was
scanned on the Fuji frontier scanner, and the workflow for doing that seemed
that was more straightforward at that minilab. The results were better.
But none the less, I made the decision to buy a flatbed scanner.
I scanned again the disappointingly scanned film. The result speaks from
themselves.
Matjaž
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