Notes from the Workshop
On photography, film, music, art, literature, and the creative process in general.
Film Negative Archiving Challenges
Now that I’ve found a relatively fast and relatively inexpensive way to create a digital archive of my trove of film negatives, I started pondering to use the upcoming winter to go through about 20 years of negatives. Now, 20 years of negatives sounds like a lot. (…) The more worrying part is actually something else.
How it all began: My first camera / Part 2
Getting the pocket films developed and properly scanned was much more complicated than I had expected. Fotoimpex Berlin, where I had bought the Lomography pocket films, had an offer of either only developing the films or having them developed, scanned and printed, at the price of 35 Euros per film. Plus you had to send them in and pay extra postage on top.
I found this to be quite expensive and went on the search for other solutions. After a while I found a lab in Berlin that would do it for about half the price. Alas, it turned out that half the price meant really bad quality prints and scans. The resolution of the scans was appallingly low, the exposure and contrast of the prints sub-standard by any account. I won’t share the name of the lab, suffice to say that they are based in the city center.