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Film Scanning

Started Sep 7, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Film Scanning

Hi all,

Idk if I have placed this thread in the right place or not. But anyways...

I recently bought a film camera (Yashica FX-3 Super2000) and started to shoot my first roll of negative. I am feeling excited and have learnt a lot from this camera.

I appreciate how to simple photography is back in the old days. (I could shoot 360 digital photos with my A6000 in a single day but it is quite hard for me to finish up 36 frames in two weeks! ) I am also logging my settings for every frame and try to find a better way to understand the lightmeter sensitivity.

Though there 3 frames to go, I am looking for a lab to develop my negatives and let them digitize it for me. For one more thing in my mind, I am planning to set up my own film scanner with my A6000.

Few questions on film scanning has come up to my mind and I would like to seek your precious opinion:

1. I am going to shoot RAW with my A6000, Idk if there are any color bias (produced by the sensor/lens) that will affect the outcome.

2. I will keep my A6000 to ISO100, Sigma Lens to manual focus and the sharpest F-stop (say 5.6 to 8) and the correct exposure (EV+/-0). What would you suggest?

3. Different brands of negatives has their own "color setting", even the development  will affect it. After digitizing, I will get a set of negative color RAWs which I need to process them with Photoshop/LR, will I lose the original color of the film during the process? How to rectify it and keep the film color as original as possible?

What will you say?

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Sony A6000, Yashica FX-3 Super200
Contax Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 80-200mm f4
Contax Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.7 MM
Sigma ART DN 30mm f2.8
Yashica YUS 28mm f2.8

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