mawz, what is your workflow for your film images? Do you have the film developed in a store and scans made there or do you self-develop/scan at store but then scan at home. If scanning at home, what hardware do you use and what sort of post-processing do you perform on the digital scans?
I have not processed film recently as I still have two rolls half used on two film cameras. But I normally have them processed and scanned by Costco and then import the low resolution JPG scans (3-5mp, enough for 4x6 or so) into Lightroom for basic adjustments. I've tried to get the Costo techs to scan at a higher resolution but they refuse and generally give me some BS technical responses when the real issue is they don't want to spend time on it for what I'm paying. The problem is that if I ever want to print any of these pictures I would be forced to have them scan-and-print from the original negatives and not my post-processed versions.
For those asking about my workflow, it's fairly simple.
I develop my own B&W, usually in Rodinal. C-41 and E-6 are developed by the lab.
All my 35mm film is scanned with a Minolta Scan Dual IV (An Epson 4870 with betterscanning holder & ANR insert is used for 120/220). Scanning software is Vuescan.
Scans are imported as 16bit TIFF's into Lightroom 4
Processing is done in LR4 with the NIK plugins
Final images are uploaded or printed directly from LR. For uploads I use Jeffrey Friedl's plugins.
My post work tends to be minimalistic. Generally I deal with the dust, tweak curves & colour and sharpen. As of late I've started adding borders to some images.
Has anyone had their Pixel Kings randomly (or at least seemingly random) switch the flash over to TTL after you've set it correctly in manual mode? Rather confusing... I know if I move out of manual exposure on my camera it will move to TTL, but I didn't (AFAIK, but I can't rule out dial movement of course). And it switched. Right at the wrong moment.
