Since I first started camera scanning, I’ve always advocated using the highest resolution camera you can get ahold of. (My first camera scans were with the 1. 3-megapixel Nikon E2n, so it’s been a long road.
) That advice is changing. The new highest-resolution DSLR cameras now have such high pixel density that you may get better […]. petapixel.com
Develop and Fix, the developer of the FilmLab series of film digitizing software, has announced the latest generation of the platform: FilmLab 3. The company says that it introduces new versions of the scanning algorithms and is up to four times faster. [Read More]
There are lots of daylight white balanced films on the market. And amazingly, they're all getting more expensive quite a bit so with no control over the market. So Studio C41's Bill Manning has stepped up to help film photographers.
Epson has just announced the new FastFoto FF-680W, a wireless high-speed photo scanner that the company says is the world’s fastest personal photo scanner. If you have boxes and albums filled with old prints you’d like to digitize, this scanner is designed for you.
Film photographers, especially those who develop their own films at home, know all too well the struggles of digitizing their negatives without a film scanner. That's why when Hamish Gill announced that he's developing a tool he called pixl-latr, everyone who ever thought and tried creating digital versions of their film photos took to his Kickstarter campaign to support his project.
Creating a digital copy of yourself from all angles allows for high-resolution 3D-printing using the photos as a reference. A company in Beijing, China has developed the 3D Copypod, which does just this.
The lead image of this blog post features a beautifully scanned negative of Kodak Portra 400. Looks really nice, right? Lots of photographers who get into analog film photography will then go about scanning their images to show them off online.