Scanning Film
This photo is now one of, it not the most cherished photo I have ever created.
Delilah wearing my “website hat” and the next exposure being the first time I ever tried to get a flare on film with the FUJI400 on the film just all of it!
So added to the list of equipment I have unnecessarily purchased in 2024 (total is somewhere around $15,000-$20,000) is an Epson Perfection V550.
This is definitely a huge learning experience and is going to take a lot of time to get where I want it all to be.
Being able to scan film negatives, slides, and high resolution photos is so awesome!
These gentlemen enjoying their lunch from the 1960’s that I bought from a thrift store is now forever digitized and I love every spec of age you can see and that has been highlighted. The top where someone had this hanging with tape, the hairs that will forever be stuck on this image the blemishes. I love everything about it.
Being able to take a physical photo and digitize it while also pulling a little more detail is so insane!
As I am typing I am realizing that scanning these upside down and flipping horizontally I forgot to also flip them Vertically, and because I am a POS I am not going back and fixing it for the sake of posting on this website for the 2 viewers to be myself and my wife.
These slides I can not scan just yet, I need to get a lot better and also need to figure out how to clean film before scanning these. I have 4 pages of slides of this tank but something at some point since the 1960’s has spilled inside of them so they have smudges on them that will show when scanned. Still beautiful to take photos of them like this!
I guess I should find a subject for this and really get to a point with it. Scanning film digitally is something I have wanted to do for a while, I underestimated it a lot though. It’s not difficult or anything just peeping for it and starting out has been more than I had mentally prepared for. The software took 3 fucking hours to finally work with windows 11. That had me mentally melting into my chair. once working it was a lot of fun figuring things out after watching 100’s of hours of YouTube videos over the last year.
If you think the glass is clean, it is not. If it is clean, it is not. I am shying away from showing a lot of the negatives I have scanned just because I need more practice before anything and I am trying to save most of that for a YouTube video. I do enjoy getting to show the digitized photos I have scanned and gotten more detail from like the one above from 1965.
I will update the film section, and also have another Blog in maybe a month or so. Like I said above I am saving most for a YouTube video, I just wanted to share some photo and film scans and be all over the place with my thoughts and this process. Hopefully it won’t be to long and I can share even more.
I have to learn my own process before sharing or even acting like I fully know what I am doing. I just know at the moment I be doing and it be working. Know what I’m saying? Anyways.
