Semester 3 - Images: Scannnnnnning
As I have shot film for this project and printing this in a darkroom as pieces of work is not feasible at this stage of lockdown then I’m going to have to digitise the negs which means scanning them
Scanning negatives, why o why are we still at this juncture? I remember the old days and I still have my Nikon Coolscan 35mm neg scanner, which I tried to get up and running recently but the connectors et al, all proved too much a task (I always wonder if Nikon was short for Nice Con)
I’ll be honest here and say that I’ve not monitored recently developments (if there has been any) so I’m slightly antiquated on this, I have mainly been content with working with an older systems for an age…...it’s worked but barely and never had the cash to update or look for different fixes.
Plus at this stage of the project and with the confinements of time and money
I’ve not really looked into alternatives and I do have a working, albeit clunky and not easily formatted system, but on initial glance it’s still incredibly expensive for the hardware and the software.
How have we not moved on from this yet?
Are the old slide copier lens attachments worth looking at again? But then again they never included the film edges though, a feature, which I always really liked, I remember printing some work on my HND and including Fuji Neopan 800 and the sprocket holes on a print, very tasty.
I was messing about with some of the work as the reason why I used this was for it’s tactile nature which I think I’ve mentioned before, so
I recently posted this on my Insta, it was a video of a colour transparency positive I’d done of this work, which shows both the image and the means of production.
Is this maybe the future of how I show this work? Hopefully this encompasses how I’d like it to be seen or maybe I incorporate it as a light panel, oh that’s given me a great idea to add to my exhibition exploration…which leads on from my other idea…
Interesting times, starting to get that giddy feeling when you are near completion of a project and it’s starting to come together…which is nice.
Abstract: Long Story Shortly Told: Why is scanning still so difficult and what to do about that????…