I’d heard about this mystery process called scanning negatives, and I knew my CanoScan 4400F had the capability. I’d even glanced at the little thing-a-ma-jiggy that holds the negatives. I finally took it out for a whirl yesterday.
Way cool.
No, seriously.
First husband (daughter’s dad). 1981. Willamette River. Portland, Oregon.
I miss Oregon so much, but I digress…
I took this photograph with my spiffy, new (at the time) SLR. I barely knew what I was doing, but this one came out pretty good. I wish I’d kept up with my photography, but we were young and poor and film developing was not cheap.
A whole new world has just opened before me. Toddling off to buy some film. Any recommendations from my film photographer followers? I love black and white too, so any recommendations would be most welcome!
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Wonderful photo. I have boxes and boxes of slides and negatives that I’d like to scan and convert to digital. I’ve tried several different scanners and have never been happy with the result. This one is great.
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I had to tweak this a bit. The colors had faded over the years (or maybe it was the original film).
I just ordered some film from B&H. Taking a bit of a shot in the dark, really, but I’ve been wanting to get into film this year and the only way to do it is to just jump in. Knowing I have the ability to scan from my negatives makes the cost less daunting.
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Hmm I poster one reply, but it’s not showing up (i did it from my phone, so who knows where it went).
It sounds as if you are planning to give film another go. I have no recommendations for you.
I am not looking back from digital (as I’ve written before, the first digital photo I took convinced me of that). I know there are photographers enamored with the film medium, and they point out all the pluses with it . . . none of which I agree with.
The best of my film photos don’t compare to even a regular photo I take. In part that might be me, but a large part I believe it to be the improvements in metering, processing, etc. In other words, the cameras of today, the smart lenses of today, and the combination of the two, make for such a leap forward for the amateur photographer (me), that my Nikon N8008, a wonderful camera, is now just a display piece in my cabinet, and it will remain so.
That said, as an exploration of the photographic process, I can see/understand the appeal (again not for me). I will be curious to follow your exploration of it, and knowing how you’ve applied to learning the craft, you’ll probably not only enjoy it a whole lot, but raise it to the same levels of your current efforts.
Good luck.
Oh . . . and also good luck in finding different film. I’ve not looked recently, but the consumer side of film has become rather limited. I remember reading something about many films now only being produced and sold in quantities for professionals photographers . . . in other words, still not cheap. Kodak still makes a bunch that is available at B&H and the like, but I don’t know about the local places . . . maybe camera places have a good selection.
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Yes, this is an exploration of photography. I won’t give up my DSLR, but I want to see, knowing what I do now, how film shakes out for me. Most especially, I’d like to explore B&W film medium. So, as mentioned above, I’ve sent away for some rolls of film from B&H, and we’ll see what happens.
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The film averaged about $4.50 – 5.00 per 36 exposure rolls. Not bad. Developing the negatives will cost me about another $6 or so. I’ll scan myself until I develop enough confidence in my ability not to whack an entire roll. Then I may pony up the extra little bit to have the lab scan the roll for me.
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‘xactly what I’m doing at the moment (the scanning thing, not the fishing, though I’m not adverse to drowning a worm or two on the end of a line myself) – still trying to get a proper handle on it
PIcture is a nice study in concentration – great use of shallow dof to pull him out of the background.
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Thanks. Not like I knew any of that at the time. I was just trying to expose the photo properly. 🙂
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🙂
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