It takes me around 1h to scan a roll of 35mm film on my film scanner (Plustek 8200i). The process involves VueScan, Negative Light Pro, Photoshop (some people have simplified it with standalone apps but that’s still my workflow).
When I feel lazy, I just book an hour of time at Photolaundry and use the lab scanners they rent out by the hour. I can do 8 rolls in an hour, very little post-processing needed. Straight to jpg is already great
@skinnylatte Curious... do you scan every image? I'm too impatient to scan everything, so I usually selectively scan just the images that look good to me. (Same scanner, btw!)
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That funky condo at 101 West 14th St. in NYC, shot with a cheap but pretty awesome Sears rangefinder that's a near clone of the Ricoh 500 RF. An incredibly compact rangefinder with all manual focus and exposure that you can read and set without taking your eye from the lens. Not bad!
6 months ago when I had my beloved Rivendell bike stolen, everyone told me: it’ll turn up in a couple of months. I wanted to believe them but I wasn’t sure I did!
Few things in my favor: my Riv Road Standard was a custom frame in 1995, the size and color doesn’t really exist at all so it was very unique. If you see it, you know it’s my bike. So almost exactly 6 months to the day I got a Reddit message from someone saying they have my bike!
I took a photo of my friend at lunch time today on my film camera and I sent her a scanned copy by 6pm. If I had taken it on my DSLR there was no way you could have paid me to load the SD card in my computer and send her a photo in the same time. I just personally enjoy the whole film / dev / scan process, and find it an essential part of my creative practice!
@skinnylatte Among many other things I love about shooting film, I like having maybe two to six shots of a given scene to pick from instead of twenty. The fact that I've done more precise thinking and choosing in the field makes the later process of picking and editing shots easier and more fun.
@pfefferle Greetings and thanks for your work on the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress! I had a question, if you don't mind. I tried it months ago but stopped because it seemed to create a profile that I couldn't edit and I wasn't able to delete posts or the profile itself. Just curious if that's changed and if there's any way to delete/edit posts and the profile itself? Thanks!
@anildash Anil, can I ask if you've tried this out yourself? Back when it was first announced, I gave it a shot and was kind of horrified to discover that it basically created an account that I couldn't edit or delete. Deeply strange -- just wondering if that's changed/improved, if you happen to know. Thanks!