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How much gear to lug on my (hopefully) upcoming vacation
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Yeah, many of those are on the underexposed side. Of course, it's generally better to lean towards underexposure with slides, but deep shadows will still just render as a dark and muddy mess in the end.
Still, slides never quite lose their magic when viewed like that, do they?
Still, slides never quite lose their magic when viewed like that, do they?
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Even with the bad artifacting and low res. The colors are still absolutely stunning
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Yeah, I know what you mean.
Lucca, Italy, 2016
Pisa, Italy, 2016
Both Velvia 100, which was expired by a couple of years by then. It had already shifted to magenta quite a bit, but with the colors of Tuscany, this worked out quite well.
These were the last rolls of slide film I shot. Most likely forever.
Lucca, Italy, 2016
Pisa, Italy, 2016
Both Velvia 100, which was expired by a couple of years by then. It had already shifted to magenta quite a bit, but with the colors of Tuscany, this worked out quite well.
These were the last rolls of slide film I shot. Most likely forever.
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yeah, that was my last Velvia 100 as well- Maybe I'll get a chance to get some more some day, but I wanted to use this last one for something special.
I've seen similar oversharpened digital artifacts on lab scans of C41 - from several different labs. I did eventually find a lab that provides good scans, but for more control, I decided to build a diy film-copy rig based on a mirrorless digital camera. The only way to have complete control over the scanning process is to do it yourself. But if you prefer the considerable convenience of having your film digitized by a lab, then keep searching until you find a lab that produces scans you are happy with.
Of the few labs I have tried for C41 processing and scans, the only one I was happy with was Photrio member Adrian Bacon in Petaluma California, doing business as Simple Photography Services. BTW, I believe Adrian uses a digital camera to produce the scans, and his own propritary software for the color inversion. Obviously, slides should be easier to digitize, colorwise, but some scanners have trouble with the higher D-max of transparency film. My digital camera is able to record details in the deep shadows of underexposed slides that my ancient Minolta film scanner could not.
Labs often provide different resolutions of scans of course at different price points.
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the camera store I use has been sending out their films for processing and scanning due to staffing issues. the partner store they're using has done 35mm scans at a reasonable resolution, other times, not so much. Yet I never have scan problems with my 120s
There are no ghosting shadows on the raw scans, the ghost shadows are from digital artifacts. Stop over doing the enhancement work and the ghost shadows will disappear.
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thinking the problem is too much sharpening. I don't even like excessive post processing as it is.
earing in mind you will have to carry it around and that will count towards you flight baggage allowanced Take as little as you can get away with. one camera body one zoom lens (wide range) and film colour or B&W but not both but at least twice what you are taking. Spare batteries and if need be a charger.
I agree. But he packed way more than I would have, and apparently has done fine, as he's back with photos
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Lucca, Italy, 2016
Pisa, Italy, 2016
Both Velvia 100, which was expired by a couple of years by then. It had already shifted to magenta quite a bit, but with the colors of Tuscany, this worked out quite well.
These were the last rolls of slide film I shot. Most likely forever.
Yeah the colors are just perfect with these *chefs kiss*
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Well, I want high contrast, especially if I'm using P30. however, maybe I also shouldn't be using clarity and dehaze in camera raw...?
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Are these scans you made yourself? Without wanting to be offensive, I think there is some room for improvement. I'm not sure if you've followed some of the recent threads in the Scanning forum, but it may be worthwhile to scavenge it for advise/tips on how to optimize a DSLR scanning setup. You find the forum here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/forums/scanning-and-scanners.361/ It has been attracting some more traffic recently, specifically in the domain of DSLR scanning, so there's plenty of useful info to be found.
Those sound like 'magic tools' to me that may easily do more harm than good.
In (a), there are already heavily pixelated edges, see e.g. the lantern bottom right in the image. This suggests that even before this stage, there's a structural problem with image quality. Could there be an issue with motion blur during digitization? And do you up- or downsample the image?
In (b) and (c) things get progressively worse, but that's my personal opinion.
That looks a lot better to my eyes.
Those sound like 'magic tools' to me that may easily do more harm than good.
In (a), there are already heavily pixelated edges, see e.g. the lantern bottom right in the image. This suggests that even before this stage, there's a structural problem with image quality. Could there be an issue with motion blur during digitization? And do you up- or downsample the image?
In (b) and (c) things get progressively worse, but that's my personal opinion.
That looks a lot better to my eyes.
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And no, I did not scan these myself. I don't think I have enough room in my apartment to setup dslr scanning anyway.
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not sure if the apx was scanned in house or at the partner store
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For your G.A.S. list on next lens to buy add a PC lens to stop the buildings from leaning back.
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