Posted
7 December 2007 @ 9am

Tagged
photography

Oregon Coastline 2

Oregon Coastline 2

I finally got around to scanning the medium-format negatives I shot in Oregon last year. Overall, I’m very pleased with the results—amazed, actually. Besides a yellow cast on the film, probably due to the flatbed scanner color-shifting negative to positive, and two examples where I double-exposed the film, I got a handful of beautiful shots on one roll. For these shots, I cheated with the light meter on my Canon, shooting the scene first digitally and then transferring the shutter speed and aperture settings to the Rolleicord. Now that I’ve got a better grasp of that relationship, I can take full advantage of the camera’s potential.

This is enough success to consider buying a flatbed scanner with a transparency adapter and shooting a lot more medium-format film. Can anyone with color developing experience tell me if it’s stupidly expensive to do at home, or more complicated than black and white?


3 Comments

Posted by
tbtine
7 December 2007 @ 1pm

I’m guessing this is another rhetorical query of the internets of the same variety as whether or not you should purchase a Vespa…


Posted by
the idiot
7 December 2007 @ 2pm

Yeah, I should have probably called this post “Dear Lazyweb…”


Posted by
tbtine
7 December 2007 @ 11pm

Does my experience in college count or no? I *was* a photojournalism minor with experience in old school b/w and color dark room experience…