Where do you develop/scan your negatives?

[Darthfeeble]

I send to a lab and then scan at home. I was getting "High Resolution" discs from the lab but found my old Epson V600 was just as good and decided to save $30 a roll. Between the rise in the cost of film and the rise in developing I am for the most part done with film.

 

[SilverInversion]

Between the rise in the cost of film and the rise in developing I am for the most part done with film.

Unfortunately I have to agree with you.
I just last resorted to do b&w slides using the Adox and the Foma reversal kits, just to finish up all the films that I still got.
From that point onward, I'll buy a digital camera and do everything digitally.

 

[Rob-F]

I do it all at home. I built my darkroom in my basement. I scan with a Nikon scanner. I think that scanning with a camera is a splendid idea!

 

[Vince Lupo]

I thought I was pretty much done with film when I got into digital about 25 or so years ago, but I’m actually now shooting more film and less digital (unless it’s for commercial work). It’s all processed at home and then scanned by me. For medium format I’m using an Epson V850 with Silverfast 9 and for 35mm I’m using a Plustek 8200i also with Silverfast 9. I’m particularly impressed with the results from the Plustek/Silverfast 9 combo.

 

[Peter_S]

Develop and scan at shop and scan a selection with my Coolscan 8000 ED. I used to develop B/W at home, but that is a thing of the past.
Anything for print I might send of to drum scan, but the publication days are largely over, and the price hike has made me switch to digital for almost all photo work. For better or worse.

 

[deadrangefinder76]

Home, in a washroom with dark bag, blazinal and fixer only...hanger and clips to dry then slap it on an Epson 4490, done!

 

[luuca]

BW -> develop and then wet print or scan at home
Color -> develop and then scan and sometimes ink print at home

 

[kxl]

I develop and scan (Coolscan LS 5000) at home, although I do have the option of doing all of that (and printing) at my camera club. Develop and scanning at home (with your Z8) would certainly suffice, but also consider joining a local camera club that has a darkroom and scanning equipment.

 

[Erik van Straten]

I do not scan the film, I only scan the prints I´ve made. Scanning is an art in itself.


gelatin silver print (summilux 35mm f1.4 steel rim) leica m5

 

[Luftfeder]

Develop black and white film in my darkroom and then scan, if needed, with an older iMac hooked to a Nikon negative scanner. The scanner is the most recent one I've used; it followed a Minolta which had followed a Polaroid negative scanner. I rarely scan now as I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I would like to get a flatbed scanner for prints but that's another topic entirely.

I have an older Epson v850 hooked up to an old Mac tower as my dedicated scanning station - no one is making new scanners so you can get away with old equipment to run it.

 

[Luftfeder]

I develop the 120 film at home using Black White and Green eco-friendly developer - it comes as a liquid concentrate with a long shelf life and I just mix what I need for every batch so I don't have to store it. I scan with an Epson V850 which for medium format film has higher resolution and better results than when I tried camera scanning with a Pentax K-3 and macro lens. (25 mpx on a 6x9 negative is a lot lower resolution than 25 mpx on a 35mm negative) The biggest problem is making sure the negatives are clean, flat, and straight so I use photoflow solution as the last step of developing and then dry them with good heavy weight and then I scan them before they have much time to get dirty. I have found that if I use lint free gloves, don't let the scanner stand open too much and blow everything off a few puffs with the "rocket" bulb I get very few spots on my scans.