A question to film users

[ppaaoolloo]

Do you scan in the unprocessed film or negative or wait for the developed photo and scan them in?

I read before that it was better to scan in negatives than developed photos to have more flexibility. This would be the analogue equivalent of using RAW vs JPEG.

[Teddy Regpala]

I have limited experience on this, and I've done both before (late 90's).
I prefer scanning slides, than scanning prints.
Though scans from prints are much better resolution-wise, as it's much bigger. But colors are already "processed".
But if you really want "raw", scan from slides/negatives.

Just increase the dpi to increase the resolution. This might be interpolated, depending on the scanner.
It will look soft. Just like RAW, you need to apply "capture sharpening" too.

For what it's worth, I prefer Epsons for consumer-grade scanner. ;D

[Ronnie Dominguez]

I dont know much about film scan but certainly you have so small an area. The issue. I think is finding a good photo shop to do the processing and choosing the paper (glossy paper may provide reflectance) . I used to scan few of my pictures then with a cheap HP scanner using million of colors.

Today photo editing software like photoshop ( and GIMP as Teddy's wink on the survey) are very powerful and full featured, so there may be less issues today on PP as it used to be. Also film and slide scanners seems to be a passing fad then.