Scanning color negatives is the Holy Grail of the film lover. The scanning part, per se, is no different that the one you have to carry with any other film, color or black and white. The tricky part comes when you try to obtain natural, or at the very least, pleasant colors from that piece …
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The cheap bastard guide to (film) photography – Part V: How to digitize your pictures
This can be easily the most expensive part of the process. When you have to digitize your pictures there are three possible ways. AN EXTERNAL SERVICE / LAB If you’re lucky to live near a lab that still offers a good scanning service contextually the developing of the pictures – say Costco or similar …
The cheap bastard guide to (film) photography – Part III: Large format
The large format options are more limited. In reality there are dozens of possibility, but the larger the format the more difficult to find a good camera for a cheap price. And the admission ticket starts to skyrocket too… UP TO 150€ Graflex Speed Graphic (various models) with one lens MPP (various models) without …
The cheap bastard guide to (film) photography – Part II: Medium format
With medium format cameras the price of the admission ticket used to be pretty steep. Thankfully to the explosion of the digital craziness now you may buy cameras that costed thousand of euro for a few bucks. Keep in mind that the quality will be correlated to the original price, not the one you will …
The cheap bastard guide to (film) photography – Part I: Shooting in 35mm
35mm is the film format with the more choices. Pretty much every reflex made in the past 60 years is capable of delivering great results, assuming that is working within specs – i.e. it’s not broken. The prices are pretty close grouped too, at least at the same level of sophistication. So in this case …