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August 16, 2021

Negative Scanning

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All of the film based images on this site were scanned using a camera (aka: camera scanning). This might sound a bit confusing at first if you’ve never heard of it. You’re essentially just taking a picture of your negative(s) with a digital camera, as opposed to using a more traditional flatbed, drum, or dedicated negative scanner, and then…

Flatbed Scanning

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From ~2004 up until around 2020 I scanned my film using an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. At the time I bought it it was one of the best (consumer level) transparency scanners available, used by a lot of photographers like myself. At this level of scanner things don’t change too much, the technology kind of topped out around then and…

Digitizing Negatives / Film Scanning

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Over the next several posts I’ll share some of what I’ve learned about camera scanning and digital asset management over the last couple of years. I did a scanning project in 2020 that covered all of my photography since 2000. It consisted of mostly 120 film with some 35mm and bit of large format: about 1000 rolls (and sheets) in…