Awesome Tips I Needed Some Professional Help – Film Scanning with Brandon Lee
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Film cameras are gaining popularity- but how do you keep the benefits of digital? You can pay a pro shop to digitize your film for you but that’s expensive. What about a home solution? In these videos Linus and friend of the channel Brandon Lee try out to at-home digitization devices to find out what the tradeoffs are.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Developing film is EXPENSIVE
3:08 Scanner at home
4:48 Why is film trendy?
7:17 Finally, scanned photos
8:10 Using the HP Scanner
11:06 Comparing scanned photos
13:00 Results from the professional lab
14:08 Young Linus incoming
15:35 Who is this for?
17:53 Outro
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
3:23 Canon 9000 flatbed with VueScan and then Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom is clutch.
I actually jsut spent like 10 or 12 hours looking into solutions for this earlier this year, so this video is perfect timing
Can you do a Video about gaussian splatting?
One can buy a car for the price of that camera!
People should know that you can get excellent film cameras for hundreds and not thousands. The Leica is an outlier tbh
Try using the scanner with Linux, i promise it Will work directly 😉 othewise the ”Scan a document” app in Windows has better comparability than the comanys own software.
Start rolling Cibachrome developers…
Where did he get the epson so cheap. I live in the same city and the lowest i can find is like 600
I've scanned tens of thousands of negatives for myself and others using the Epson V600, it blows my mind that YEARS later, it's still among the top of the line. That space has kind of gone blank. Nice to see something user friendly for people not looking for the premium services.
Thought this was a reupload but Floatplane got this end of may.
Ultimately this was a very reasonable comparison, don't get me wrong, but FYI, this understates how much quality you're leaving on the table with one of these things. Yes, it's an ok solution if you need to bulk scan old negatives and aren't too concerned about how they look, but if you're experimenting with film photography, these cheapo all-in-one things are not going to give you a good sense of what 35mm film is capable of. The Epson (or going down the camera/dslr scanning rabbit hole) is a much better way to go if you care about quality, but if you're just starting out, I think you're much less likely to be disappointed and put off of film entirely if you let a good lab scan your first couple rolls before you think about the DIY route.
oh, the man, the legend, he's back… sure only for this video, but it's nice to see Brandon Lee is doing great.
Stupidest trend…. Swear the new gen has no original ideas and just recycles our stuff while at the same time calling us old and uncool…. Iv never sounded so old lol.
funnily i have actually taken much less Photos and videos since i got my first Smartphone which was HTCs top model at the time which broke after 2 weeks when i accidentally dropped it 20 cm whilst lieing in the grass in the garden listening to music.
So i got a Galaxy S3 as replacement as it had just launched thx to the security package i bought extra (probably the only time in history where it turned out to be usefull).
so for more then a decade i have taken less photos and videos then i would do in 1-2 years during the first decade of the millenia with a regular camera or one time use camera and the familys Video cameras (One old Panasonic from the early 90's or late 80's and a more modern film camera from 1999 which my little brother got from saving up and working cutting grass and such.
We also got a Digital Videocamera using flashmemory right when they started becomming popular since the Panasonic was rather heavy to cost around when on vacation and on birthday parties.
so Yes i Filmed more using an old brick as a kid then i do with all the luxuries moderdn systems have……
And i blame it one the fact that we have it in the pocket at all times which means its no longer a special feeling filming happy times in the family or midsummer nights dinner with family and friends for example.
And i have a room filled with olkd Video films from my 4 grandparents who no longer is in this world and thousands of photos plus half a room with photos and films from my parents and us kids to digitize……..
Linus, you're my age 😀 ain't no way you don't have any negatives! I have over 9000 of photos on negatives! I shot on film from age 6 to age 20 basically!
5:08 With today's storage pricing📈 , there is a cost to taking digital photos.
The problem with scanning film having spots lint on the scans which is a pain in the butt
4:15 years ago my parents bought an all in one Epson, windows couldn't even rocognize the printer.
I tried for a whole day to get the thing to work, but nothing.
Never ever have me or my family bought an Epson since.
Nice to see that 23+ years later they still have these issues…
7:09, Linus comment made me think… Hm. That's kinda like what I do with Immich.
When you pulled out that envelope I somehow hoped for an old 8×10 Kodachrome.
I'm older than Linus, I learned how to shoot on film, but I hate it. Film is a product of it's time, it should disappear.
11:21 Idk what they saw in person, but the colours of the "screwed up" shot looked way more natural / better.
camera (dslr/mirrorless) scanning is the best imo, for a home solution.
what alternate timeline did I wake up in? LTT film photography content? what is next, grainydays taking about ardinos and sht?
I forgot which store, but one does ultra high def archival digital processing, i think it was $100-200 CAD per image at i think it was 150mp or more. There are some faster and less manual work scanners available that can also scan positives.
The Epson v600 isn't made any more and was quite unique for its ability to enable scanning of film and slides and stuff. As a result it's coveted and regularly sells way over original rrp…
Normally, I wait 2 weeks for the worst scans
10:03 Brandon you were this guys first cameraman do you ever remember this guy reading instructions.
Great collab, hope to see more like this!
Now do 16mm film scans!