Scanning – arhphotographic

A cup of coffee road trip – aka developing film while away from home and scanning images with my new iPhone 16

November 19, 2024

Having finished a roll of Kentmere 400 in a borrowed Yashica A, I was keen to develop and scan the film. The trouble was I was going away for a couple of days which would mean I would have to wait .☹️ Unless, of course, I developed while on the road as it were. Developing … More A cup of coffee road trip – aka developing film while away from home and scanning images with my new iPhone 16

Photofix Copier- Panacea to Digital Scanning?

October 10, 2021

When I first started digitalising my film negatives I was using an ipad as a ‘lightbox’ and my Nikon D500 to take the image. This led to spending too much time, in my opinion, in front of the computer trying to get my images as I wanted them. Discontentment led to using a flatbed scanner … More Photofix Copier- Panacea to Digital Scanning?

Epson Perfection V370 Photo Scanner – another issue?

August 2, 2020

During a recent session of scanning, to my dismay, I noticed a thin purple line running across part of some but not all images. In the image above, I have drawn a rectangle around the offending line. Increasing or decreasing the image resolution made no difference, as seen below, except that the line has now … More Epson Perfection V370 Photo Scanner – another issue?

The Case of the Imperfect Perfection 370

December 12, 2019

Sunday 8th December 2019. The day had started well and the weather was fine enough for me to clean the car. However the rain clouds soon appeared and so I retreated for a spot of film developing. A couple of hours later saw me scanning the negatives with my Epson Perfection 370. The scanner has … More The Case of the Imperfect Perfection 370

Digital Darkroom

March 14, 2019

Although I would love to have a literal darkroom the reality is we don’t have the room. So having successfully developed a film my next step is to digitalise the negative which means getting it on to the computer. Enter the world of the digital darkroom. You can’t just use any flatbed scanner to scan … More Digital Darkroom