anselwannab
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I've been reading a lot of posts about digital rangefinders, developing film, and scanning. They all seem to be in the same vein; how do you get your images from the camera to a digital format. A dRF would be nice, but expensive. Film is great, but frankly I really tire of keeping chemicals fresh and scanning film.
Getting film (I shoot TMAX 100 and 400) developed at the local Mike's Camera is expensive and scanning, forget-about-it; expensive, crappy or both. Some of the online places that will develop film and scan it sound better, but still not great. I have to think that a lot of the costs are driven by the pain of dealing with individuals or few rolls of film per person.
I saw an add for NetFlix or something, where you set up a list of movies and they send them to you to watch as you send them back and that gave me an idea.
Have a service where a company sets you up with an amount of film. As you shoot it, you send it in for processing and scanning. They get the film and send you new film to replace the film you sent in. On the scanning side you could set up different levels. Maybe full scan for those that want it, lower res for those that will only post. I think the interesting option would be a scan good enough to evaluate the pic, and that would be posted online. You review them and pick the ones for higher level scanning. I don't know the economics of scanning.
When you're done with the scans they send the film back to you.
Where RFf comes in is as an aggregator of people looking for this service. Maybe Stephen can get a cut, plus it makes it easier for people to shoot film and get it in a way that is sharable. This could increase sales of cameras, or at least keep more cameras off for sales list with titles like "only a few rolls thru".
I think that the best thing about digital photography is the ability to access easily a wide audience of people to share and discuss your pictures with. I think a service like this would make it easier to participate at RFf and photography in general.
I don't think that there is anything here that hasn't been tried before, but I've never heard or found it being put together as a whole system before.
My family has a saying, "That's an idea, but not a very good one."
What does everyone think?
Mark
Getting film (I shoot TMAX 100 and 400) developed at the local Mike's Camera is expensive and scanning, forget-about-it; expensive, crappy or both. Some of the online places that will develop film and scan it sound better, but still not great. I have to think that a lot of the costs are driven by the pain of dealing with individuals or few rolls of film per person.
I saw an add for NetFlix or something, where you set up a list of movies and they send them to you to watch as you send them back and that gave me an idea.
Have a service where a company sets you up with an amount of film. As you shoot it, you send it in for processing and scanning. They get the film and send you new film to replace the film you sent in. On the scanning side you could set up different levels. Maybe full scan for those that want it, lower res for those that will only post. I think the interesting option would be a scan good enough to evaluate the pic, and that would be posted online. You review them and pick the ones for higher level scanning. I don't know the economics of scanning.
When you're done with the scans they send the film back to you.
Where RFf comes in is as an aggregator of people looking for this service. Maybe Stephen can get a cut, plus it makes it easier for people to shoot film and get it in a way that is sharable. This could increase sales of cameras, or at least keep more cameras off for sales list with titles like "only a few rolls thru".
I think that the best thing about digital photography is the ability to access easily a wide audience of people to share and discuss your pictures with. I think a service like this would make it easier to participate at RFf and photography in general.
I don't think that there is anything here that hasn't been tried before, but I've never heard or found it being put together as a whole system before.
My family has a saying, "That's an idea, but not a very good one."
What does everyone think?
Mark
