{"id":922,"date":"2014-05-13T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/?p=922"},"modified":"2014-09-19T01:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:02:42","slug":"film-scanning-and-who-knows-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/film-scanning-and-who-knows-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning, post production, grain and who knows what&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some debate amongst analogue photographers about the degree to which using different brands of film affect the final result. Or, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/neopan-discontinued-camera-film\/\">whether it matters<\/a> at all.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I get labs to develop my film is a sure sign that I&#8217;m clearly not a serious film photography buff. I just <span class=\"hiddenGrammarError\">haven&#8217;t got<\/span> the patience, time or space. But mainly, I just haven&#8217;t got the desire.<\/p>\n<p>All of which makes much of what I&#8217;m going to say highly debatable &#8211; at least amongst those who spend, much time experimenting and discussing the merits of various film emulsions and developers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_928\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/film-scanning-and-who-knows-what\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-928\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o.jpg\" alt=\"walkway\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o-500x335.jpg 500w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o.jpg\" alt=\"walkway\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14186970193_284470bac1_o-500x335.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time tunnel (on Eastman Double-x)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often found that I get less than the best results from Ilford&#8217;s films \u2013 apart from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/bw400cn\/\"><span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">C41<\/span> black and white film<\/a> <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">XP2<\/span>. At least, this is true from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/film-photography-scanning-and-quality\/\">scanning point of view<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 and therein probably lies the rub. It may well just be the way that Ilford&#8217;s traditional black and white films interact with scanners (or, at least, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/scanners-optical-resolution-film\/\">scanners that I use<\/a>). Either way, I seem to get a very grainy effect with both <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">HP5<\/span>+ and <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">FP4<\/span>+ (the latter of which ought to be fairly grainless, in the scheme of things).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_927\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/film-scanning-and-who-knows-what\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"size-full wp-image-927\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of tram and cars\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o-500x331.jpg 500w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"size-full wp-image-927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of tram and cars\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/13981144259_2f2ec36d3d_o-500x331.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overview &#8211; (on Eastman Double-x)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sure, this might be down to the way the films were developed, but that&#8217;s out of my control. But I certainly find that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/just-as-i-got-fed-up-with-film-i-found-eastman-double-x\/\">Eastman Double-x,<\/a> for example, which is a <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">200-250 ISO<\/span> film, looks far smoother then either of the above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/twenty-years\/\">Ilford films<\/a> when digitised. It also allows for a lot more digital post-production, without developing visible grain (as does Tri-X and the older Agfa APX, in my experience).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I imagine that some film purists will sigh and raise their eyebrows at my lack of analogue dedication, whilst others will be convinced that, regardless of the film, I must be doing something wrong with my production process. Perhaps so.<\/p>\n<p>But, either way, it says to me that different film types definitely have an effect on the resulting photo. But, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-about-photography-in-four-easy-steps\/\">not for the\u00a0 same reasons<\/a> as one would expect.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are differences between 35m camera film, more to do with how well they scan, than other factors?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mono","category-tech","category-film-photography","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}