Since you aren’t getting any response I’ll throw in Citizen’s Camera in Portland. I have never used their scanning services, but have used them on a number of occasions for C-41 and E6 development. All perfect and no dust on the film. I took a road trip from Texas to Oregon and dropped off film in person and they were very professional and seemed to have a large volume of work. I’m sure they offer high quality scans. I would suggest the largest size and specify TIFF. BTW..the services that I have used were more than reasonably priced.
A Google search turns up three labs in Atlanta, all of which do scanning as well as developing. So that way you can get your films developed and scanned locally. Different labs have different ways of getting the scans to you: some will send you the files via WeTransfer or a similar service (they're too big to send by email, even in a zip file), others will give them to you on a USB key, you just have to ask the lab how they get the scans to you.
Just do a Google search for film labs in Atlanta, Georgia, and you'll see them; looks like one of them also works with cinema films and does ECN-2 processing.
bjhurley wrote:
A Google search turns up three labs in Atlanta, all of which do scanning as well as developing. So that way you can get your films developed and scanned locally. Different labs have different ways of getting the scans to you: some will send you the files via WeTransfer or a similar service (they're too big to send by email, even in a zip file), others will give them to you on a USB key, you just have to ask the lab how they get the scans to you.
Just do a Google search for film labs in Atlanta, Georgia, and you'll see them; looks like one of them also works with cinema films and does ECN-2 processing....Show more →
I'm based in Atlanta and use Dunwoody Photo, the way they do it is through Dropbox and a link sent by email if you want them sent digitally. I've also used their ECN-2 service once just to try it out, it works well.
Thanks, I’ve done my searches but want to know what people’s actual experiences are. I’m not that close to Atlanta and not averse to mailing. I know of Holland, Dalmatian, The Darkroom, and others. They all look ok, it may boil down to which developers they use.
tile_86 wrote:
I'm based in Atlanta and use Dunwoody Photo, the way they do it is through Dropbox and a link sent by email if you want them sent digitally. I've also used their ECN-2 service once just to try it out, it works well.
I vote for Darkroom. They have been consistent and professional. They have a mailer to send (up to 8 rolls per mailer) and flat rate back. They have their own online site to distribute you scans.
mjc wrote:
I vote for Darkroom. They have been consistent and professional. They have a mailer to send (up to 8 rolls per mailer) and flat rate back. They have their own online site to distribute you scans.
-Darkroom was very quick and consistent; very stream-lined process and they seem to have mastered throughput. Scans are a good starting point.
-Dirtcheapfilm is run by enthusiasts and is now developing as well--takes a bit longer (several weeks if you send in a bunch of rolls from a vacation) but nicely priced. Scans are decent for the price as well.
This is a smaller lab but they are passionate folks, I have spoken to one of the main guys a few times. They are doing c41, black and white, and ecn-2 with remjet in house. They are not too expensive for getting gfull 16 bit tiffs and jpgs. They also will scan with a digital camera instead and convert, but you still get tiffs. They are very knowledgeable about ecn2 digital conversion. They also develop black and white in multiple types of developers. I do mine own developing but I just found there service and process interesting id I needed it.
I heard back from Darkroom. Surprisingly they charge the same for only scanning uncut rolls of film as to both process and scan. I guess that saves me the trouble of doing my own processing.
Learned that Holland Photo in Austin, TX offers scan-only service on B&W film, for what they call a "large" scan, for just $7.19 per roll. Just what I was looking for as I prefer to do my own processing.
If you prefer to do your own film processing consider doing your own scanning. There are many options with scanning, just like printing your own prints, that can make a scan better than a simple in and out scan many labs do.
I’m using an older Epson scanner, V700 and am getting excellant results. From what I’ve learned there is not that much difference in the later model scanners. I am using the latest version of Silverfast software.
samuelphoto wrote:
Learned that Holland Photo in Austin, TX offers scan-only service on B&W film, for what they call a "large" scan, for just $7.19 per roll. Just what I was looking for as I prefer to do my own processing.
