1,001 ROLLS OF FILM! NOW WHAT DO I DO?
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2018
- I have thousands of rolls of 35mm negatives (film) and a few rolls of slide film that I need to get into the computer. This was the first step in figuring out how i'm going to do that. I will follow up with another video showing how I get the negatives into RAW Files using the Nikon D850.
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How many ROLLS of film are you sitting on that need to be scanned?
Tons, i'm actually getting ready to use my lightbox and my dslr mounted above, and then begin photographing them into lightroom etc .... some are old and were not treated very nicely, dust , fingerprints etc. I was thinking i'd then go through them in LR??
i would get an adapter like what Nikon offers that attaches to a macro lens.
I was scanning slides my father had taken over the years. I think I am up to around 4,000 so far. That doesn't include the 2x2 slides or any of his 4x5 photos.
Several boxes of slides.
Luckily, I developed, cut, scan sleeve and organize my sleeves!
'light boxes don't exist anymore' less than 60 seconds on Amazon and found plenty 🙄
This guy is pretty anti film lol I love it
I scanned my neg and slides in a few years ago, it took some time but I'm glad I did. You have a lot when you started in 1965 and final change to digital in 2003. My Nikon film scanner automates the 35mm neg, the other formats (120,220, and 4x5) took a little longer.
I'm willing to bet the larger Loupe was made for looking at Medium Format negatives, and the other for 35mm. Good to know - I've been thinking of buying one, but wasn't sure if the larger one would be too big for 35mm., kinda figured it would be. Great video dude!
Really enjoyed this. Well paced video and your commentary was entertaining.
I kept my lightbox. And several loupes. I also have tons of negatives and slides. I got a scanner and started scanning them. But after a while I got tired of them and haven't done any in a while. I really should get back to it. But it is such a tedious process. Gets boring very quickly. Keep the videos coming. Love them.
nice picture of M.Manson from the Golden Age of Grotesque-era
WOW great work Jared,this video brought my memories with the film camera long back, today's kid's are missing the amazing experience.
I shoot exclusively film in 2020, My main camera is 70 years old. My parents werent even alive when it was manufactured.
I have to say, even that it is shoot with Film, I can still see the " Jared " signature there. It is really good. Personally, I liked the last shot the most. Keep up the good work.
I wouldn't mind seeing more of your old film stuff in another video. I think it would be really interesting to see where you started and what you accomplished.
Why not scan the entire binder sheet to make a digital contact sheets? You could print them out and organize that way. Then start making digital scans of your favorites. Or go above and beyond and scan them all! Good luck!
Brett Bodkins bcs this is faster than scanning
Take a shot every time Jared says "loupe".
give me the loupe, the loupe.
Now I have thousands of photos to go through 😄
Have fun that's alot of work. Good ideas for the life box I have a light box I will have to remember that
Cool Jared! Maybe you can incorporate more analog into your shows. Just because analog is so much fun. Maybe a developing session or something. :)
And still miss RAW talk haha.
B/W scans are so ok. 👌 I like the situations on them.
Great photography Jared❣️ You are very talented 👏 Best regards from 🇨🇦 P.S. I have tones of video tapes from past 30 years to review and edit 🤭
THREE RING BINDER WITH THREE RING FILM COVERS Get binder dividers and multiple 3 ring binders for different subjects, label them like you so do for your Lightroom catalog. You can label with a specific pictures with marker for favorites on the new film cover. I've inherited film from my grandparents so from the late 2000's all the way back to the 1900's in medium format. so yes I have several rolls. this doesn't include the current rolls of film I have taken but use the same method to properly store and label,.
Oh yeah, we need more of these. Make it a recurring show until they are all scanned. You had some great photos in there.
😂 Reminds me SO much of when I went through a few of mine the other day. So many negs and slides to go through though, will be a mammoth task! One I keep putting off...
Wow.. Nice photographs.. Even more so impressive since they are film...
I unfortunately wasn't interested in photography early enough to have old photo scans. But it's so cool how you have so many!
2018 must be the year for opening the proverbial time capsules. I too, just this past May while back in the states to visit, stopped by my home to look for some vintage 1970's photos I had shot of a friends band. I had a rough idea of where to look but spent a great deal of time looking until I stumbled across a box of about 120 rolls of finished film. (B&W, color negs, and slides) I recruited the help of my local friend and quickly purchased two film scanners, (One for myself, here in Macau, and one for him there). I gave him uploading access to my server here and we both set to scanning for a couple weeks till they were complete. Amazed at some of the stuff I had shot and forgotten about but, found some real treasures. Not the ones I had originally been looking for so next visit back I will be on the same quest again. I scanned everything and intend to have a look at each in Lightroom and keep the good and pitch the bad. Have some fun with it. I know I sure had many Ahhh and wow moments while scanning and a few more when receiving the long distant scans from my friend.
I built a light box using a broken laptop LCD display. Since the backlights are usually flexible, if you regularly repair laptops for others, you can use the scrap parts to make a decent 15-17 inch light box by simply removing the broken LCD panel, leaving just the backlight and its diffuser. I largely used it as a lighted platform for product photography.
Nice project!
I recently started doing this. I have about 400-500 rolls. All personal/family photos, so I'm sorting & scanning. At least I had forethought have them in a binder in plastic holders. Most are dated & numbered, with some notes.
Stepdad,retired firefighter has boxes & boxes of Kodachrome slides of fire engines. Used drive around the country as a hobby. Had a Hasselblad camera which did 5x7 sheet film! Boxes of fire related negatives! And he had a huge enlarger which could handle them (& 35mm). Couple of years ago he tossed the enlarger & camera in the garbage because he didn't want them anymore. sigh.
I have a light box. I use it all the time.
More Videos like this please! Show a lot of history of your Photography.
I saw Adam Levine in your random montage. Cool. The black and whites of the kids were really good.
I use a special 3 ring binder/box to store the negatives. I include a 8.5x11 paper to put notes, data, etc for each roll. Works for me. I'm going to try and scan each roll in it's plastic holders(?) That will be my contact sheet. It should work.
PS: I only scan negatives that will be used.
They sell pages to put your negatives in and then you can put the negatives in a binder. I've had to start doing that and it makes it so much better and takes up less spaces. I never counted how many rolls I have. It's kinda hard because some of the negatives are not together with their "family". I also have 110 negatives! Doesn't that set you back in time lol. I know I have hundred's of rolls, just not sure the correct amount.
Yes please do a video on getting the negatives to raw files. My grandparents have a bunch of 110mm slides and there is not any products that I can find that can scan 110 slides. I want them to be able to be able to see all their old photos
I run a photo scanning service here in the UK, over the last 15 years I've faced those mountains of negatives and slides so I know how you feel. If you're looking for an efficient way of scanning your entire library check out the Epson range. The V800 and V850 are two of the few devices still available to scan analogue images and they allow you to scan four photo strips in one pass.
When we purchased our last units they came with (free) Silverfast software which in my opinion does a better job than the standard Epson scan program. Epson also support Digital ICE automatic dust and scratch removal which post scanning will save hours in Photoshop editing.
In planning how to offer a commercial scanning operation I looked at using DSLRs. It was pretty good for the first few hours but it just took too long, hence our investment in Nikon Coolscans (no longer in production) and then the Epsons. If you really want top-drawer results Hasselblad still make their Flextight range. Brilliant results but when I last looked they were around £20,000 per unit so not a commercial proposition for our target market of serious amateurs / professional photographers.
Actually built myself a lightbox for aroun 25-30 bucks... quite easy if you take a bit of time to do it (couple of days, mostly to let the box dry after painting it).
I still shoot film, so it's a must have tool. ;)
Cheers
Jared - I need a quality solution to scan a lot of Kodachrome 25. Perhaps you could do a video on some solutions? It needs to be a quality solution, not a cheap Chinese slide scanner. Any ideas?
Hold up... How old is Jared??
I remember my mum having so many stash of negatives too
From where did you acquire the big '"back of the camera" loupe.??
OOPS.! ! Found it .... Hoodman or Matin Loupe..
Which do you like??
So, The 'Fro is about to go all Loupe-y? It's nice to know that a celebrity photographer has to do mundane housekeeping from time to time. I have a small light box to sort slides. Negatives (monochrome or color) require more ingenuity.;) Back in the day, I wrote "Subject/Date" on each package/page/box of "processed film." Seeing this parade of text and numbers never fails to bring back the place/time when Kodak was the only game in town. I see that you don't need Rod Serling to visit your own "Twilight Zone.";)
Now I know what i will look like next week. I have 3 bins of photos and negatives i am planning to start going thru.🤣🤣🤣
That is awesome! I tried that back in like 2002 or something and still have some, but unfortunately shit happened after my grandparents pasted and almost all of it was lost .
Those images look incredible, I'd love to see the images of the eagles especially since Glenn frey's passing.
Early fro squad
The sideburns have kinda grown out a bit and taken over the whole head. :P
Considering the brown tint of film substrate, how do developers get the color right when transferring to a positive image?
What scanner are you using?
Now its light pads. Amazon, Ultra- thin LEDs. Cheap and portable. Perfect for checking out those old negatives.
What did you settle on for a scanner?
Same problem. about 2400 slides (lost another 2000+ in home basement floods), and unlimited bags of B&W and color negatives. Problem with the negs is that you cannot id the good ones by looking at them. I have an Epson flatbed scanner, but it's cumbersome and the media does not ly completely flat.
Nice portrait back there. 0:05
If you’re going to keep your negatives in the large envelope, you should consider having a proof sheet done, and include them with their matching negatives.
Don't mix up the envelopes if they've got the date on!
It would be interesting if you critique some of these old shots and discuss what you would do different now.
He doesn't like film lol maybe we can bring it back
You have all that camera hardware at your disposal, why not get creative. Set up your light box then above it have a camera on a tripod pointing down, then connect that camera to a TV via HDMI and stick live view on. Get a cheap camera app to flip the colour in camera to reverse the negative. You could then just pass the negatives under the camera and watch the video feed. Use a long macro lens and you have a perfect setup at least for preliminary review. Add a capture card and you have great footage for your video too.
I used my Sony A7III with an MC-11 and a Canon 180 F3.5 at F8 and a document stand and it worked really well for slides. Best to do it with Capture One or some other capture app on a computer because then no shutter pressing.
Stay positive about your negatives
Buy yourself a cheap tracing light from any at supply store, Amazon sells them for about $20. Then buy yourself a cheap flexible cutting board, cut it to the size of the tracing table and tape the edges of the cutting board to the tracing light (excellent for diffusing light and more durable than paper). Viola! A flat, USB powered lightbox for $20
When did you shoot JET Mate?
I used to make contact sheets and used a magnifying glass, all B&W though. all your negatives look color,,,, never tried to make a B&W contact sheet with color film?
Ya I remembered been shooting 45 years. I had a killer loupe
don't forget a nice big lens works as a great loop...85, 50 etc.
just grab an ipad and open up a white page
dam, that's true!!!!
Jared Polin especially if you have a pro! I’ve used this method before and works OK-ish.
Lightboxes are still around. quite a regular thing in the world of an artist.
Just proves how film lasts forever and digital longevity is questionable.
Fonejacker how so?
Redundancy and backups. If you only store your data in a single place you're asking to lose it all.
WuschelofDespair He has these photos prob 15 years after he took them. And all they did was sit in a box. Does anyone have digital photos that old? If you do, you have done well to back up but keep that up for 50 years.
TechnoBabble Always keep the negatives even if you digitalise them, because the negative will last longer then the scan.
if we lose all computers lol
Cool
Don’t be so mean to the negatives
Looks like you got your work cut out for yourself there Jared. :~D
I really liked the photo of The Statue of Liberty...
I was hoping you would say, "Screw all this", and send it off to some one that has good prices and process negatives into digital. Hoping this was an Advertisement for that....BUMMER
Still got my lightbox and loupe, in the closet and hasn't been used for more than 15 years.
Do you mind using the iPad as a lightbox!? There is a free app called lightbox trace that just works for this... thanks... you are welcome! 😉
"Do we have Loupe!!?" I find myself shouting similar stuff to my wife on date night. :>
I got a similar box, except mine goes back to the 80's.
Shame you didn't use one of those cameras that put the time and date in the corner of the negative :-)
Who was the last gentleman in the black and white photo? I ask because of the tattoo on his forearm :(
Will you only be keeping the good negs.
Geta Negative scanner, you can see and saved them
LOL I have an ENORMOUS 16x20 lightbox, it's gorgeous LOL
"The Singing Group"??? Yes, the group that today, passed Michael Jackson in all time sales for a single album...ever. Those Eagles.
Dude, you're like reverse Ross, you went from short hair to Afro
Sounds like a job for an intern.
I think i've seen that Marylin Manson picture somewhere!
you shot the Eagles and you don't remember ?! it gives a little clue of how many gigs you had during your career... 😆
is ther a sequel to this
Feed scanner would have scanned all of it by the time you made the view
everyone has at least one lightbox on their Desk and pocket these days
(else how did you even make this video)
nostalgic hahaha
Ok, yeah it’s worth the work, scan them all
So you need the new Epson superfast film scanner.
I vote for a used Pakon F135 film scanner.
throughout the first 13mins they should have just kept flashing that lightbox for purchase online. That would have been hysterical.
Still waiting for a round off into a directors chair.
What you mean light box doesn't exist anymore. Film is alive and even more then before
If it wasn’t for Jared, I wouldn’t know sh*t about photo.
Could you do a real world review of the Nikon F3/F4???? That would be amazing!
And how about the Nikkormat?
My first SLR was a Nikkormat FTN. I loved that camera.
Hey that’s Norah Jones.
Lol my friends dad is in the eagles. (Joe Walsh)
Dude, buy a light box, the brick thingy is pretty useless. Better use an tablet if you really wanna DIY-it. Cheers mate.
Bonfire
JET!
35mm negatives last decades unlike digital LOL
Theres an app for that.... use your tablet and can adjust color. 😁
The Canadian in me cringe.... # 88 Eric Lindros...... not Mark Recchi! Fro Know Your Fotos... lol. Nice video though as always!
I’m well aware of who that was. It wasn’t meant to show a Recci shot there.
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