I've always been frustrated about film scanning being locked behind a paywall or generic AI slop. I've tried to make this as system agnostic as I can. Please give me feedback so that I can improve this article. Thanks in advance!
I created a blog post of scanning film. Would like your thoughts.
https://albertwu.de/2025/11/01/the-struggle-of-scanning-film/
7 Comments
sem@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 258d
It is very cool but ... very "professional" I would say . I mean just the gear... It is quite an expensive if not say more. Maybe you can add a couple of words about more "entry-level" setup. For example I'm still on relatively chip Plustek 8100 + one old version of VueScan I bought five years ago.
randombullet@programming.dev · 5 pts · 258d
Definitely not wrong. Maybe I should put in that any method that can get consistent scans first is best?
sem@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 258d
Yes... Or even some overview of possible methods. Even a top level one would be nice, because there are a lot of possible options with gear and software.
m33@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 258d
Thanks for sharing, it looks to me great already. And nicely detailed so not only a screenshot collection 👍
I see you go through the pain of inverting then tuning curves, as it should be. I only do B&W and I dislike this step... the sooner an automatic tuning does it for me the better...
Keep us updated if you continue working on it 🙏
randombullet@programming.dev · 4 pts · 258d
Thank you. I definitely need to work on formatting because right now it looks like. Word vomit.
m33@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 258d
Maybe some paragraphs formating or spacing ?
Il reads pretty well on a single column, like a newspaper article
gerryflap@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 258d
Thanks for sharing! I personally use Darktable and negadoctor, but honestly this doesn't look too complicated either. Sometimes it's very hard to get consistent results. Usually there's not one set of settings to gets me satisfying results for all photos on a roll (usually due to tinted lighting, under/overexposure, etc). I tried using the first part of the roll, where there's usually a fully exposed and fully unexposed part, for tuning the initial values. But this also doesn't always deliver consistent results. Usually it's a lot of back and forth between different photos.