Also, I develop black & white film myself so having a scanner is useful for those situation as well, although I have used a slide duplicator in the past for that with reasonable success. Scanning each film costs £4.50 when scanned as TIFF and the Epson v550 scanner is about £170 so would pay for itself after about 40 films, however that’s only part of the story.Īt some time in the future, I want to get a medium format camera and will need some method for digitising the pictures. Although they can produce TIFF files, the default is to produce JPEGs with TIFF files an extra £2, so I started to think about the cost of this. This works to an extent, but is no good with any negatives which aren’t perfectly exposed because the dark areas are then very noisy.įor the colour films I’ve exposed over the last few weeks I’ve been using a development service in Hull called Photo Express who do a really good job of developing and will also scan the films as well. Although we have an HP photosmart C8180 combined scanner, printer & copier it isn’t possible to control any aspect of the scanning – you just place the film in the holder and JPEG files get copied to an SD card.
Over the last few months I’ve really got back into photography using film and thought it was time I got myself a scanner so I could experiment with digitising some of the pictures I’ve taken.
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