![]() I remember the first time I shot a roll of Delta 100. On the other hand, this is not how I remember things. So I wouldn’t blame someone for concluding that film, and specifically 35mm film, gives a (dare I say it) vintage look. It’s certainly true that when you put that SD card in your 5k iMac, go into Lightroom and hit “Z”, those pictures look mighty sharp and smooth! The Sony 42mp BSI sensor is some kind of black magic pulled from the future when compared to some film scans in my library. The conventional wisdom is that a digital capture makes a 35mm capture look like the film image has Vaseline on the lens. I never said, “oh gee, 35mm isn’t that sharp.” But now, digital is for the most part a mature way to make pictures. When I was shooting film and printing in the darkroom, digital cameras were these expensive experiments that were mostly to be avoided. Bad scanners can introduce poor color, soften details, a very high amount of noise, and or ugly digital artifacts. It frequently does not come through unscathed. Scanning is often the bottleneck through which film, a high quality imaging product, must pass. ![]() ![]() Leica M4 – 35mm F2 Biogon – Fuji Superia 400 I say, “ostensibly,” because it’s just as much a diatribe about scanning processes and how to approach the film workflow from my perspective. This is ostensibly a review of the Pacific Image XA 35mm film scanner (also know as the Reflecta RPS 10M). ![]()
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