RoxannaRachnid

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Indulgent furry artist, character designer and cartoonist, NSFW 🔞

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ionchy
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I scanned my own film photos!

left: scans from lab
right: scans I did

more comparisons below the cut. these are all shot on CatLABS X Film 100 (respooled Kodak Aerocolour IV). I used my library's Plustek OpticFilm scanner and VueScan on their computers, with the colour balance set to "auto levels" rather than "white balance", and most other settings as default. for this pair in particular I think the colours turned out less saturated but more "accurate", but I'm glad the vibrancy of the red still shows up here.

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boodoo
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This is a really informative set of comparisons!

I'm also overly and irrationally precious about how much I'm post-processing my scans, but I think a big part of the gap between what you got in some of these versus what was in the lab scan was just a difference in black levels, and even to my mind that hardly counts as post-processing.

Totally understand about the experience difference between "paid some money and suddenly got sent (24-36) images ready to look at" versus the "I am queueing up (4-6) frames to then see come in slowly and move on to the next strip" though. I'm really happy with my Minolta 35mm scanner but I have thought about how nice it would be to get a Coolscan that accepts a whole uncut roll instead...

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