Dolomites - Mountain Top View
by MikeInDevon
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My son's really getting into film and he gave me a voucher for Analogue Wonderland for Father's Day. So I got a couple of films to take on holiday. The ME Super is so much lighter than my K1 so is kinder to my painful neck.
What was the process to digital assuming by Ana Wonderland, when I had mine digitized by a local shop there were different GByte choices/prices. I found the lower price was a bit grainy, but then it was a test shoot/film for a recently acquired vintage MX.
As far as the AW processing (C-41) choice, as this was the first time I've used AW I went all in and paid the extra to have the scans done as 'Premium TIFF Scans' with the Editing Package 'Professional' which cost £20.50 per film. The scans were 5444 x 3648 pixels each TIFF being between 50-60 MB. Looking at these full scans it's apparent that even this didn't capture the full resolution of the film, but it's still very nice.
When I get the negatives back I shall compare what AW can do with what I can do at home, using both my K-1 + marco lens and slide copier attachment, and an old Nikon scanner I have which is very slow but very good. I can't use the Nikon scanner with a modern laptop or PC, it uses a FireWire interface not USB and the software meant to runs on Windows XP (or a Mac, which I don't have), so I use an ancient desktop or even older laptop I still have kept just for this.
Regards
Mike
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1436 posts
13 years
Northwich,
Cheshire
Full marks as well for knocking them out on film...they were the days!
regards
Karlo