Continuing Series - Post #7
I am pretty happy with these photos and I am extremely happy about the results from scanning my film with a DSLR.
Let’s go over the shoot first. I only shot a roll of Portra 160 and took two exposure with a roll of Kodak Portra 800 (which is still in my camera). I am getting better with shooting a photo per scene but I don’t make it a rule or anything. I did take two photos of one scene which I am not including (not happy with it). I changed lenses but the photo was difficult to take because of limited space. These photos were taken with my 80mm, 65mm, and 50mm lens.
I am going to include these photos in my series. It definitely adds to it overall and by summer I hope to have a more complete body of work.
This is the first roll I have scanned with a DSLR and I am using Negative Lab Pro to process my images. It works really well. I can’t compare it with a drum scan but depending on your camera I think it’s pretty close to a Noritsu or Frontier scanner (this is just comparing lab scans). The setup is probably the hardest part of it but once you figure that out, it’s pretty easy. I scanned these images with a Canon 5D mark IV and a Canon 100mm f2.8L macro lens. Processing the images in the Lightroom is such a breeze. You run the Negative Lab Pro plug-in, convert your image, and adjust to your liking. Working this into Adobe Lightroom is awesome, you are working in a non-destructive workflow so you can easily revert back to the original scan any time. Also, the ability to work on virtual copies is helpful, you can create as many of them as you like. I also find the scans to be so much better than scanning with my Epson V600.
I will be testing out scanning 4x5 negatives soon and I will share my experience and thoughts on that in a few weeks.