WhaleDaughter
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I love shooting film, but I'm trying to find a better way to handle processing and printing. I get my film processed at a lab (at Precision Camera & Video mostly) and have been going the traditional route of processing and printing 4"x6".
And before I go on, I want to make it clear that doing my own processing and printing in a darkroom is not an option at this point in my life.
However, I do a lot of learning and experimenting and getting the failures printed up is kind of a waste (not a total waste because there is learning since I track my exposures, but still it's wasteful). Precision offers film scanning and I'm thinking about having that done instead of printing and then working the images in Affinity.
They offer 3 options for scan quality, and I'm wondering what the best balance of resolution and fiscal gain would be. Here's a link to the page with resolution and cost.
Photo Lab - Film Processing - Film Scans - Precision Camera Store
If I get the medium resolution scans it's less expensive by several dollars than printing. If I get the high resolution scans it's cheaper for 36 exposure rolls but not 24 exposure rolls. The ultra-high resolution scan is too much more expensive so isn't an option right now.
I suppose I could also get the medium resolution scans of the whole roll and then if there is a frame that turned out particularly well I could have it individually scanned in at high or ultra-high resolution. I'm not clear on how resolution relates to printing size (I do understand that higher resolution = bigger possible prints, but I don't know the specifics, like how big could I reasonably print a medium resolution scan). My preferred printing size for shots I'm really proud of is 16"x20".
And before I go on, I want to make it clear that doing my own processing and printing in a darkroom is not an option at this point in my life.
However, I do a lot of learning and experimenting and getting the failures printed up is kind of a waste (not a total waste because there is learning since I track my exposures, but still it's wasteful). Precision offers film scanning and I'm thinking about having that done instead of printing and then working the images in Affinity.
They offer 3 options for scan quality, and I'm wondering what the best balance of resolution and fiscal gain would be. Here's a link to the page with resolution and cost.
Photo Lab - Film Processing - Film Scans - Precision Camera Store
If I get the medium resolution scans it's less expensive by several dollars than printing. If I get the high resolution scans it's cheaper for 36 exposure rolls but not 24 exposure rolls. The ultra-high resolution scan is too much more expensive so isn't an option right now.
I suppose I could also get the medium resolution scans of the whole roll and then if there is a frame that turned out particularly well I could have it individually scanned in at high or ultra-high resolution. I'm not clear on how resolution relates to printing size (I do understand that higher resolution = bigger possible prints, but I don't know the specifics, like how big could I reasonably print a medium resolution scan). My preferred printing size for shots I'm really proud of is 16"x20".