2018 is settling into its groove. This blog has been in its groove for years. If you’ve read it for a while, you know: if I’m sharing the best stuff I read around the blogosphere all week, it must be Saturday.
Kate Wagner tells the history of the noise all around you. Because before civilization, before industrialization, the world was pretty quiet. Read Looking Around – On Sound (Part 1): Noise
Here’s a good tutorial about how to scan film negatives with a DSLR, from dspaedt. Read How to Scan Film Negatives using a DSLR
This week’s camera reviews and experience reports:
- Canon Canonet (Peggy Anne)
- Praktica Super TL (conspicari)
- Yashica T4 Zoom (Josh Solomon)
- Minolta Riva Zoom 90c (Alan D)
- Zenza Bronica SQ-AI (Adrian Vila)
- Chinon Bellami (John Margetts)
Last updated on 6 March 2020 by Jim Grey
The film scanning post looks interesting. I picked up a set of extension tubes to try this last year, and had pretty good success with some old 126 negatives. If I decide to do more, will probably put together a setup similar to his to hold everything in alignment.
I have a flatbed scanner and it works all right. It’s just slow. I wonder if the SLR method is faster.
Kate Wagner’s piece is fascinating — she has me thinking about noise in a whole new way. And the tutorial on scanning negatives with a digital SLR? GENIUS. Thank you for two fantastic (useful, informative) reads, Jim.
You are, as always, welcome!
Jim,
Thanks for the mention. I appreciate it. I cut my negatives (35mm) in 5 frames per strip. Once I’m in the grove I can load, prep & “scan” each strip in about 3 minutes. The largest amount of time I spend is cropping each image in Lightroom. If I develop 2 36 exposures rolls it can be a drag to move through each scanned negative and crop it.
David
3 minutes is awesome! I can’t do a strip that fast on my flatbed.