Time to find a drum scanner April 15, 2008
Posted by tcbp in : Photography , 1 comment so farI’ve been looking at some older work and found a few film shots that would probably benefit from re-scanning should I decide they’re worth it. The current most likely candidate to get that treatment is a medium format shot from my first attempt at shooting star trails. I’ve always been attached to those shots (probably because they’re my first star trails), and this one from my Yashicamat for whatever reason has always appealed to me. It came out much darker than intended, especially when compared to a similar shot from my 35mm camera that was set up on a tripod next to it had identical film speed and aperture settings. I can only assume it’s either funky reciprocity failure behavior or a sticky aperture knob that didn’t do what I wanted.
Either way, the darkness works, the colors in the star trails are distinct but subtle and the background color in the sky is very warm. Unfortunately a Flextight scanner (848 or 868 model I think) really doesn’t dig in to the shadows well enough without introducing a lot of unwanted noise in this case, so I think a drum scan is the only real option to get this to appear its best.
