https://www.merinorus.com/categories/photography/ Recent content in Photography on Merinorus Hugo en-us contact@merinorus.com (Antoine Merino) contact@merinorus.com (Antoine Merino) Copyright © 2024, Antoine Merino. Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:55:07 +0000 https://www.merinorus.com/blog/identifying-manufacturer-35-mm-films/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:28:05 +0000contact@merinorus.com (Antoine Merino) https://www.merinorus.com/blog/identifying-manufacturer-35-mm-films/ <p>In a previous <a href="https://www.merinorus.com/blog/digitizing-35mm-film-archive/">article</a>, I introduced how I was digitizing my 35mm film archive with my digital camera.</p> <p>By digitizing the pictures, I wanted to save as much information as possible, including the <strong>film manufacturer and type</strong>, because this information impacts color post-processing.</p> <p>Depending on whether you own the cassette or the film roll, and if they were made after the 1980s, you will most likely find enough information thanks to the DX codes.</p> https://www.merinorus.com/blog/digitizing-35mm-film-archive/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:29:28 +0000contact@merinorus.com (Antoine Merino) https://www.merinorus.com/blog/digitizing-35mm-film-archive/ <p>One of my big side projects was digitizing my family photographs. I have literally thousands of photos to digitize in very different formats: black and white or color prints, negative films of different sizes (35mm, medium format), even positive films (Kodak Ektachrome)&hellip;</p> <p>Most of my pictures are 35mm film negatives, and I had different choices to digitize them:</p> <ul> <li>Send them to a lab</li> <li>Scan them myself by buying a dedicated scanner</li> <li>Scan them with my DSLR directly</li> </ul> <p>Digitizing film with a camera is not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, this method has many advantages:</p>